Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-15

to be the largest in this
country, has just been pre-
sented to the Smithsonian
Institution.
At the Danish Embassy re-
ception Saturday following
the Smithsonian exhibition
of Three Danish Print Max
erS," Smithsonian boss Leon
ard Carmichael broke the
news.
The carbonate diamond
weighs TAO karats and will be
on display in the minerals
section in a few dayS-just
as soon as one of the invisi-
BILE glass stands can be made
for it.
The gem room containing
the Hope Diamond is at one
end of the section, but it will
suffer not by comparison in
the eyes of milady. The black
diamond looks, I am assured,
like a hunk of coal. Unless
you were a screwball-and
we have plenty of them
around town-you wouldn't
want to hang it around your
neck even if it were in a bril-
liant diamond setting like the
Hope.
1T WAS PRESENTED to
the institution by Diamond
Distributors. Inc, of New
York, which deals in indus
trial diamonds. Although all
diamonds are of the same
hardness, said DR.. Carmi-
chael, the black diamond is
the toughest because of its
structure. so it's used as a
fine cutting tool.
I asked him if he had test
ed it on glass and he in
formed me that a black dia-
mond would cut another dia-
mond.
Despite the deluge of snow
Saturday. friends of Danish
Ambassador and Countess
Knuth-Winterfeldt attended
both the exhibit and the
party afterwards in their
Foxhall road residence.
The pretty black-haired
Countess giggled over the
effect on observation-disclosures of
four inches of snow. I'VE
have snow too, but we don't
make so much of it." But
admitted that her part of the
world is lot f1atter than it
is here. Also they probably
don't get fined in Copenha-
gen If they venture out and
get stuck in the snow.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
OF STATE and Mrs. Andrew
Berding braced the storm to
be present, as did Jack SIM
sons and his son, John,
handsome Norwegian Ambas-
sador Paul Koht, Swedish
Counselor and Nine. Nils
Montan and DR.. Axel Scrip,
the good-looking bachelor
Counselor of the Danish En-
baSSy, who's just back from
a vacation in Mexico.
AXel said he had devoted
much of his time down there
studying Magyar culture,
which he found fascinating,
Whereupon Ambassador Koht
said he, too, had been study
ing Indian culture, the
ApacheS and Navajos.
Danish Secretary Vagn
Agae HORSEBACK and his wife
were saying good-bys. The
return to Copenhagen in a
months time. Hence they will
depart we'll before the move
that will involve both the
Embassy and the Chancery.
On April 20 the Chancery
will effect its transfer from
the Massachusetts avenue
address to the new marble
building on Whitehaven
street. And in June the
Knuth- Winterfeldts will pack
bag and baggage and move
to the adjoining white mar
BILE residence overlooking the
park, where they will have
parking room for 40 cars, said
the Count.
one can't help wondering
who will next occupy the
Foxhall red brick house that
has sheltered Mrs. j. Borden
Hartman, Perle Mesta, Sec
rotary of the Treasury and
Mrs. George Humphrey, etc.
THE PRESIDENTS PAS
TOR, DR.. Edward L. R. Ell
son, has written a book, And
Still He Speaks" that will
make its debut today at a
4-to-7 reception at the Wash
ington Club.
The minister of the Ma
tional Presbyterian Church
has written a 124-page tesla
ment to the reality of the
resurrection of Christ, its
Importance as the central
fact of Christianity and its
power in today's living
It's a very readable, convinc-