Word: silk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Niehans asks no fee from ruling princes. But here there is another and more tangible "response to treatment." In his mansion is a priceless silk carpet, 30 ft. square, the gift of an Oriental potentate. The Imam of Yemen gave him a ritual sword in a jewel-studded gold scabbard. In the immense living room are several old masters, including a Van Dyck and a Durer. Most of Dr. Niehans' colleagues are still unconvinced, but his patients appear to be grateful...
Within the next two weeks he spent several hundred thousand dollars for 2,127 items, including 250 pieces from the Ming dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644), 30 rare objects from the Sung period (A.D. 960-1279), more than 1,800 fine 18th and 19th century hand-woven silk carpets, many ivory, jade, bronze and wood figures, porcelain bowls. Some, but not all, were museum pieces...
...tunic for centuries, but in 1196 a seamless piece of cloth was discovered inside the altar of the Trier Cathedral's west choir; it was walled up again until Easter 1512, when German Emperor Maximilian demanded that it be shown. What he saw was a simple, loose silk shirt about five feet long. But on closer look, a woven cotton cloth, believed to be the tunic itself, was found enfolded between layers of silk...
...Vegas favorites, but it is only within the last few weeks that they have begun to put on their act for pay. ("The Sahara is new for us. We used to hang out down the line a piece. The Tropicana supplies Crosby wives wholesale.") Impeccably turned out in silk suits, ruffled shirts and elevator shoes, Gary, Lindsay, Philip and Dennis Crosby bounce onstage to prove that the Groaner's kids can make it on their own. But their father is far from forgotten. "Well," growls Gary after one close-harmony number, "that's pretty good for four boys...
Beyond the floodlights, the slanting floor of the Concord Hotel's coliseum-sized nightclub rose into astonishing distance. The S.R.O. audience, 3,000 strong, was swaddled in mutation mink and choked with pearls; star-sapphire pinkie rings glinted whenever their silk-suited owners shot their cuffs. Even "Uncle Miltie'' Berle was impressed. Onstage last week, he bared the bright new caps on his teeth, leered at the enormous room, and delivered a typically backhanded Broadway compliment: "You think this is something? Next year they're going to build an indoor mountain...