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...giant 225-pound Brazilian topaz crystal, one of the largest and finest in the world, has been obtained by the Mineralogical Museum, and will be placed on permanent public exhibit about February 6, museum officers announced today...
...ordinary topaz crystal weighs but a few ounces and is about one inch or less in diameter. The Harvard topaz is eighteen inches in diameter and described as a "short prismatic" crystal. It is white in color, with inclusions of dark manganese minerals distributed in parallel streaks...
Died. Pauline ("The Girl With the Topaz Eyes") Frederick, 53, onetime stage & screen star (Joseph and His Brothers, Zaza, Resurrection), of asthma and heart disease, in Hollywood...
Shortly afterward, despite his absence from the life class, he won a $500 traveling scholarship. Wandering into the Sainte Chapelle in Paris just as the sunset struck its windows, Student Saint was overwhelmed by the "solid walls of jewel-like color - rubies, sapphires, golds, topaz tints, amethysts, Tokay grape shades and whites like old lace." His interest solidly caught in this religious art, Lawrence Saint lost no time in becoming an expert on stained glass, made 50 notable illustrations for the famed Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France by English Expert Hugh Arnold...
Departure. Lady Drummond Hay: "We passed from a symphony of silver to golden glory as the lights of New York City scattered themselves beneath us like grains of golden Stardust, tracing patterns strange and fantastic, set with the jewelled brilliancy of ruby, emerald and topaz electric signs...