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...finish in the heat of events. As soon as he has choused his draft board with a neatly feigned epileptic fit, he lights out for Paris, where he hires out as elevator operator in a fashionable hotel. At about this time, his fingers stick to a lady's jewel case, and soon they are stroking the lady herself with such skill that she begs him to steal the rest of her valuables too. He obliges. And so it goes, until Felix is off on a world tour with the title of marquis (bogus) and letters of credit (genuine...
...financed by Boston's Byzantine Institute carefully eyed the walls in another Istanbul church, Kariye Camii, rebuilt on an older structure in the early 14th century and later converted into a mosque. With official blessing, the restorers went to work, soon realized that they had found a new jewel case of Byzantine art. With the job only three-fourths completed, their most significant find has been a set of 18 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Virgin Mary. Says Professor Paul A. Underwood, field director of the Istanbul project, who this week reports on the restoration work...
...eyes rolling with each low-down line. The musicians come to life, the wallbirds start to smile and weave with the very special sound that is Sinatra. Instead of the old adolescent moo, the Sinatra voice now has a jazzy undertone of roostering confidence, and a kind of jewel hardness that can take on blue and give off fire with subtlety and fascination...
...choosing the best from the international jewel market, young Tiffany soon built up a worldwide reputation. The great, the gaudy and the merely rich flocked to Tiffany's. In 1850, when Jenny Lind first came to the U.S., one of her first stops was at Tiffany's, where she ordered a silver tankard for the captain of the ship that had brought her from Sweden. P. T. Barnum was so impressed that he commissioned Tiffany's to design a silver chariot as a wedding present for his two famous midgets, General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren...
...good guy, Actor Grant never had it so good. He is an American, a reformed jewel thief, known in his day as "The Cat." Now retired, he lives cool and easy on the rocks, puttering about a villa. Then comes trouble. The police suspect that he is responsible for a batch of jewel robberies. To prove his innocence, he must uncover the real villain...