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...drifters confess to committing hundreds of "serial murders...
When police recover a stolen auto or camera, they can attempt to find the owner through the item's serial number. But when authorities find filched gems, they know the owners have probably kissed their property goodbye. Most gems contain no traceable markings. Systems for registering diamonds by photography and other means have proved unreliable. Says Robert Doubet, vice president of Lazare Kaplan & Sons, a New York City diamond-cutting firm: "Once removed from its mounting, a diamond is as good as ownerless...
...Beset by internal divisiveness, the McMillans quarrel and argue incessantly; the entire second act is an unbroken family battle. Superficially, Brothers seems little more than a soap-opera amalgamation of labor unrest, family feuds, and terminal illness, but fine writing and acting elevate it beyond the level of daytime serial...
Shibutani, who plays first flute for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and who has recorded professionally, said yesterday that he notified the University police of the break-in early Saturday morning and later posted notices and called area music schools and pawn shops, providing a description and serial numbers for the instruments...
...created her first serial, Search for Tomorrow, and moved to Philadelphia after marrying Bob Nixon, a Chrysler executive. The lone child of divorced parents, Agnes craved a big family. Soon, she recalls, "I was doing a 15-minute show at home and having babies and rearing them [four in all]. It was a cottage industry. I was just this strange mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia who wrote soap operas. And then it grew like Topsy and I sort of grew with it." As she grew, she also forced soap opera to grow...