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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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Harry Winston groomed Ronald to take over the business because Bruce dropped out of college and spent six years roaming Europe. |
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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A UK private bought a diamond necklace by Harry Winston from the collection of the late Joanne Toor Cummings.
The collection grew slowly until 1958 when Harry Winston gave the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian. |
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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International Trade purchased a pair of diamond earrings by Harry Winston, each set with a pear-shaped diamond at 16. |
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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He immediately renamed the gem the "Harry Winston Pumpkin Diamond" and plans to mount the stone with two blue diamonds.
When Harry Winston, the New York diamond merchant, bought the stone in l949, many clients refused to touch the stone.
The plan is to put the diamond in the new Harry Winston gallery at the Smithsonian in September, 1997. |
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Fabled jeweler Harry Winston eventually bought the stone from the estate and gave it to the Smithsonian Institution where it still resides. |
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Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist
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Harry Winston plans to refurbish the necklace that holds the diamond, rather than the stone. |
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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First Franklin Roosevelt and then Harry Truman sought to avoid appearing closer to Winston Churchill than to Joseph Stalin.
He was compared to both plainspoken Harry Truman and, once his speechwriters began cribbing from famous speeches, the eloquent Winston Churchill.
Winston Churchill and Harry Truman put Fulton on the map when they delivered the Iron Curtain Speech from there. |
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