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...brightest jewel there...
Black crepe and mourning bands hung from every window and door in town. Despite frequent showers, hundreds knelt in prayer before the padlocked church. Only a week before, thieves had broken into the basilica of Cartago, 15 miles from San José, murdered a guard, and stolen the jewel-decked, five-inch image of Costa Rica's patroness, Our Lady of the Angels. With it, they had taken $185,000 worth of gold and jewels belonging to the church...
Wood on the Fire. But it was the children who put the golden fence posts in Hoppy's old corral. Last year small fry bought 15 million Hopalong comic books. They clamor incessantly for such items as Hoppy roller skates (complete with spurs and jewel-studded ankle straps) and Hopalong bicycles (leather-fringed saddles, handlebars shaped like steer's horns, built-in gun holsters). Because of the craze for Hopalong hats, shirts, chaps, boots, six-shooters and gun belts, Boyd claims that U.S. manufacturers of 56% of all the Western-type merchandise are paying him royalties for Hopalong...
...Show. This time the British made sure that Lever Bros, would not be a one-man show as it had been under Chuck Luckman. In as chairman of the board with new President Babb went grey-thatched John M. Hancock, 67, Lehman Bros, partner, chairman of Chicago's Jewel Tea Co., crack corporate troubleshooter and longtime associate of Bernard Baruch. Franklin J. Lunding, 44, Jewel's president and a protégé of Hancock's who, according to gossip, had turned down the Lever presidency before it was offered to Babb, was made chairman of Lever...
...make the barren patches endurable. In one, the zany mute tramp leads three villains in a chase across the mid-Manhattan skyline, capering in & out of huge electric advertising displays that are ingeniously rigged to help him elude pursuit. The other sequence makes him the prisoner of international jewel thieves headed by Ilona Massey, whose decolletage plunges low enough to give even Hollywood a touch of the bends...