Word: reingold
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...carriage trade of Beverly Hills, Calif, was greatly taken with Mr. Maurice Monte Reingold, the fashionable jeweler and clubman. He had the greying good looks of a man of 56 who keeps himself in condition. He peddled costly kickshaws behind a fagade of glass and pink & grey marble-only a thimble toss from Dress Designer Adrian's atelier. To the Hollywood elite he was just plain Moe. But to the cops he was a high-class gonif.* Last week they proved...
Sayde was a middle-aged lady whose husband made his bundle in real estate. She got interested in what she thought was a 21-carat diamond ring. Moe and his brother Gail, who worked for him, wanted $40,000 for the rock. Mrs. Genis demurred. Anyway, the Reingolds only had the ring on consignment. So when Mrs. Genis bought it through another jeweler for a mere $19,000 (it was a mere 18 carats, too, she discovered), Moe was miffed and said so. "Mr. Moe Reingold," the lady later recalled explicitly, "called me a son of a bitch and said...