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...diamond anniversary of Greek drama at Harvard, the Harvard-Radcliffe Classical Players are offering a gem of a production. Those who witnessed the 1881 production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex can now see what eventually happened to the King in the play's sequel, Oedipus Coloneus, the last of the dramatist's seven extant tragedies...
...Gem Picking. Like most of the attractive and susceptible women who crossed the major's path. Junoesque Helen Hackman found his glamour and gallantry well-nigh irresistible. Signed on as his private secretary and bivouacked at his hotel, Helen spent many a happy hour in the major's company, dropping in at supper clubs by night, driving through the countryside by day. If Helen had a moment of doubt when the wardens at Dart moor Prison waved a cheery greeting to her companion one day as they drove by. it was promptly dispelled by the major...
...called King David's Harp. The record contains six little Scarlatti sonatas and one bigger one by Mozart (K. 333), elegantly played by rising Manhattan Pianist Charles Rosen. Although the piano's origin is closer to Mozart's day than Scarlatti's, the gem-pure Scarlatti pieces are more effectively unveiled. Through Pianist Rosen's subtle fingers-and the piano's remarkable characteristics-the piquant upper lines take on the diamond-point clarity of a harpsichord, while the sonatas' lower notes emerge with something like a modern piano's warmer, darker mass...
...born Charles Lewis Tiffany, has always served the rich and the successful, and always disdained flamboyance (from 1905 to 1935 it even refused to put its name over the door). It still uses hand-drawn advertisements, refuses to sell cultured pearls, shies away from setting or even appraising any gem not bought at Tiffany's. Its personnel seems changeless too. Out of 617 employees, 258 have been with the company more than 25 years, two of its officers are direct heirs of Founder Tiffany, and President Moore is a great-grandson of an early partner...
...remote Paragua River, he found an egg-size black stone "that shone like a diamond." Agustín thankfully put it in his pocket and paddled away. But joy soon changed to anxiety. For some of the miners who saw the stone said it was a rare gem worth $600,000 or more, but others scoffed that it was only an industrial diamond worth a bare $4,000. Afraid to test his luck, Agustín kept his big stone for two agonizing months. Word of the find spread. Newspapers debated names for a gem destined to rank with...