Word: jeweller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A tarnished film queen, Shelley Winters, flips over a couple of surfers who plan to hang ten over her $3,000,000 jewel collection in "Wipe-out." Repeat...
Persian miniaturists who illustrated such tales hundreds of times, practiced their art to such perfection that even today scholars cannot determine whether they used brush or pen. Jewel-like colors were heightened to captivate a patron sultan who had genuine gems. Subject matter was aimed to keep him entertained. To do so, artists indulged exuberant imaginations. The stars shone by day, and daylight prevailed at night. Three men constituted an army, two humps made a range of hills...
...after-the-races tea dance. "There are so many cocktail parties," Marylou said, "I wanted to do something just a little different." The reason for the apprehension was that "they"-the Wideners, the Wetherills, the Vanderbilts and the Sanfords-would all want to know about "it"-the $780,000 jewel robbery at the Whitneys' Cady Hill House just four days earlier...
...Everyone who had access is a suspect." Marylou discovered the theft just before going out to a dinner in honor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is playing at this year's Saratoga Performing Arts Center, one of Sonny's pet projects. She went to get her jewel box, stashed away between blankets in the linen closet ("one of my four secret places," she says), and discovered the jewels were missing. "I had to go through the whole party without anybody knowing," she recalls. "I drank lots of champagne and tried to look happy. But I felt miserable...
...Empress' tiara, fortunately, was safe in the bank vault when the jewel thieves struck. But there had been an uneasy moment last year when Sonny's wife No. 3, Eleanor Searle Whitney, told a columnist that the tiara was a gift Sonny had bought for her. Marylou would have none of it. Said she: "Sonny bought it as an investment. And I must say, the pleasure of wearing it is delicious...