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...Treasure Chest. The necklace contained 647 diamonds weighing some 2,800 carats in all, and to duplicate it today would cost $3,855,500-including, Historian Mossiker notes helpfully, the 10% federal excise tax. This grotesque ornament was invented by the crown jewelers to tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly...
...charge. When they complained about his arrogance, Irish Catholic Dooley replied: "I know of but one meek, humble man who accomplished anything. That was more than 1,900 years ago-and I'm not so sure he was meek and humble." Then, in August, 1959, Dooley underwent chest surgery at New York's Memorial Hospital for melanoma-a rapidly diffusing form of cancer that is almost always quickly fatal...
...they do in their New Jersey country estate. He owns racing stables in North Carolina, South Africa and England. He is active in charities of both countries, last year was president of the Johannesburg branch of the South African National Tuberculosis Association and the Somerset Hills, N.J. Community Chest...
...wiry, whisper-voiced man whose square face is delicately crosshatched with scars. Sitting alone, Goalie Glenn Hall, 29, slowly straps on his 40 Ibs. of dark-brown leather pads and fights his regular pre-game battle with his nerves. Great drops of sweat roll down his cheeks, his chest heaves convulsively, and he may vomit. Says Hall: "There have been nights when I almost wished I was hurt so I didn't have...
...direction of the shot. To shove him self quickly around the cage, Hall pulls on the goal posts or the bar across the top of the net. When a shot actually comes, Hall has no time to think. He picks off the puck with anything handy-his padded chest, a skate, his flat, stubby stick or his huge left mitt. Says he: "Afterwards you have time to figure out your mistakes...