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...Turtle Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.'s wife was already out $20,000 worth.) Comedienne Raye, who opened her closet and found her jewel box empty, set her loss at $15,000. Among the 16 whim whams missing: 1) a diamond-&-ruby ring (one kite diamond, one 32-karat diamond, 28 bluewhite diamonds, four rubies), 2) a pair of earrings (34 white diamonds, eight baguette diamonds, 3) a diamond-&-topaz ring (18 pearl-shaped diamonds, 46 blue-white diamonds), 4) a bracelet watch (30 white diamonds, twelve small rubies). Any clue...
...union of the two gases. (An oxyacetylene flame is much too hot.) The powder drops and melts on the tip of a slowly moving stick. There, drop by drop, a single large crystal is formed. It is called a boule. Two hours are required to form a 200-karat boule the size & shape of a large bullet...
...Weight of the average engagement-ring diamond: one-half to one-fourth karat...
Henceforth, ordered the FTC, Good Housekeeping must make no seal guarantees unless they are 14-karat, money-back or replacement guarantees; and it must work harder at its tests...
...tour of Europe and the U. S. in 1936-37, the young Maharaja picked up 100 trunks full of souvenirs, including a ukulele and a 29-karat piece of the $1,000,000 Jonker diamond. He also picked up a cold in California. The nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed...