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...direct contrast to these two stories, Illona Karmel's "The Bracelet" is almost self-consciously denotative. It is the story of a bracelet that symbolizes the fortunes of a Russian-Jewish family. Each possessor of the bracelet is deftly and clearly depicted in a series of brief character sketches, "The Bracelet" is consistently interesting, but the story's structure precludes much emotional reaction. The most arresting character, a young woman named Barbara Bogucka, is passed over just as the reader becomes interested...
...marriage by proxy. Summoning a dozen friends, they broke the news and began pouring champagne. "I know it's a strange sort of marriage," said Ingrid, "but ... I'm glad that I'm married." She wore a wedding gift from her new husband: a gold chain bracelet dangling a gold miniature policeman's whistle. To Mrs. Renzo Rossellini, the bridegroom's sister-in-law, Ingrid looked "transfigured with...
Cake Batter. Nobody was working any harder to do it than Hearstling Pro Tern Fannie Hurst. Novelist Hurst, 60, wore a life-sized enamel calla lily, a jade ring as big as a crow's egg, and a jade-and-gold bracelet so heavy that she had to take it off to type her stories. Her journalistic style was equally flamboyant. She mixed metaphors as vigorously as a housewife mixing cake batter: "Even more than the cloak-and-dagger, who-done-it crime of 'grand passion,' the motives here involved strike, straight as the crow flies, into...
...film comeback by Bellevue Hospital, which was also used for backgrounds in The Lost Weekend, The House on 92nd Street and The Naked City. Janet Leigh is probably the cutest lung abscess case ever to enter a hospital, and Ford, with his well-cut suits and his slave bracelet, gives Bellevue an elegant tone it often lacks in real life...
Three unidentified men attacked Kurt S. Levy 1G last night at 11:45 in Cambridge Common and robbed him of five dollars in cash, a gold watch and a gold and silver bracelet in the first Square robbery since last spring's observatory thefts...