Word: jewelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Street, a discreet short block away from Manhattan's Wall Street, are well past today's popular business retirement age. The presiding patriarch, Robert ("Bobby") Lehman, spare and spry at 73, controls the major part of the firm's capital, operates out of a jewel-box-sized office with just enough wall space for six small paintings from his $100 million private collection.* Though he concentrates on picking promising youthful talent, Lehman's outstanding recent personnel acquisition is General Lucius Clay, 68, who joined the firm after he reached the mandatory retirement age as chairman...
...German Pavilion (since destroyed) in Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition, a jewel-case structure employing the open planning first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright that combined the richness of bronze, chrome, steel and glass with free-standing walls...
...lady crackled, "To hell with the money. I want my husband's jewels back." Since she scarcely counts all her fives and dimes, Woolworth Heiress Barbara Mutton, 53, could afford to be cavalier about the cash. Anyway, the thieves who broke into her $1,500,000 mansion near Cuernavaca, Mexico, took only $20,240-and most of that was in traveler's checks. What burned Babs was that they footpadded off with the "irreplaceable" jewel collection of her seventh husband, Laotian Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak. The princess felt so sentimental about the necklace with the gold...
...Brooklyn." Nor had Barbra (TIME cover, April 10, 1964) got there by the Bendel route; she designs her own clothes-a golden sable coat with a middy collar, a green brocade suit of the same material as her bedroom walls and, for accessories, old beaded bags with real jewel clasps and new shoes with old buckles. The Couture Group liked it, cited her "extraordinary individuality and infallible fashion instinct." Sighed Barbra. "Now life will be so much less frustrating. I've been labeled with the kookie image for so long...
...house?" It was nearly that bad. While former Central Intelligence Agency Director John McCone waltzed around with his wife Ti at Washington's National Symphony Ball, somebody cracked the Shoreham Hotel's defenses upstairs, broke into the McCones' suite and seriously sabotaged Ti's jewel collection. More than $18,000 in diamonds and pearls and other baubles were gone when the ball was over, and Edgar Hoover's boys immediately jumped in to investigate, along with some CIA people. The CIA explained that it is merely doing "liaison" for its old boss...