Among fashionable jewelry firms, none is more discreet than Manhattan's Van Cleef & Arpels. The firm's customers and what they buy are private matters. But four months ago, the firm complained publicly about a customer in a way that shook café society and Hollywood; it had received a worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels...
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