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...down, it's very white, brilliant light, and as it goes below the horizon you get a very bright orange color. Down close to the surface it pales out into sort of a blue, a darker blue, and then off into black." The stars were bright diamonds on black velvet. "If you've been out in the desert on a very clear, brilliant night when there's no moon and the stars just seem to jump out at you, that's just about the way they look...
...reader of Vogue or Harper's Bazaar can testify, Mrs. Guinness should be better known. She has a lean figure, the profile of a latter-day Nefertiti, and hair like black velvet. At 47, Gloria Rubio von Furstenberg Guinness is a classic example of a woman who knows what money can do-and does it with grace. Her husband is related to the famed Guinness brewing clan and is a multimillionaire (banking, airplanes, etc.). They scorn café society's more redolent haunts; they are just rich people who maintain a bejeweled private life, do nothing deliberately...
...Velvet Swindle. The solidest and most serious entries in Crime and Criminals-juvenile delinquency, penology, prostitution, war crimes-exhibit a drab sociologist look and a stylistic prison pallor. But as a refresher course in big-name crime, the book often proves happily terse where there no longer can be much tension, yielding forgotten details into the bargain. Crippen, perhaps England's best-known wife murderer, was born in Michigan; Captain Kidd, most famous of pirates, probably was not a pirate at all but a legitimate privateer who got a bum rap from a British court. While the never-caught...
Calm Sea. According to his written wish, Julian Harvey, shrouded in red velvet, was buried at sea, twelve miles off Miami. At about the same time, Terry Jo recovered enough to talk to the Coast Guard investigators-and Harvey's suicide took on a new sinister significance. The child's story completely contradicted Harvey's. On the night of the tragedy, she said, she and René had gone to their cabins about 9 o'clock. "Later I heard screaming and stamping and I woke up and it went away, and I went upstairs...
...vagaries of taste can be cruel, they can also be marvelously kind. When the delicate Girl Reading, by Jean Honore Fragonard, appeared on the velvet block, the Parke-Bernet audience suddenly burst into applause. After some whispered consultation with Director John Walker of the National Gallery in Washington. D.C., Collector Chester Dale bid it in for the gallery for $875,000. This was more than twice the price of any Fragonard before, and, for that matter, more than any other picture ever auctioned except Aristotle...