Mann's Jewelers Accent Magazine Spring/Summer 2022 Edition by Mann's Jewelers

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MANN’S JEWELERS 2945 MONROE AVENUE, ROCHESTER, NY 14618 585-271-4000

8 On the Run 16 Eager to Build 18 Irving Mann: An Extraordinary Life 30 Stephen & Proust 34 Ask the Doctor 36 Center Court 44 Cabot St. Lucia: Made for the Game 48 If These Walls Could Talk 58 Not Bad, Brad 60 Message in a Bottle 62 What It Takes to Tango

70 Rising High

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Nancy Mann PRESIDENT Robert Mann DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Megan Crawford EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rita Guarna CREATIVE DIRECTOR Stephen Vitarbo SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR Darius Amos LIFESTYLE EDITOR Haley Longman CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Robert Beringela, Mary Stone

PUBLISHING STAFF GROUP PUBLISHER Lizette Chin DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION Kathleen Wenzler ADVERTISING SERVICES DIRECTOR Jacquelynn Fischer PRODUCTION ARTIST Christopher Ferrante ACCOUNTING Steven Resnick, Kasie Carleton, Urszula Janeczko PUBLISHED BY Wainscot Media CHAIRMAN Carroll V. Dowden PRESIDENT & CEO Mark Dowden SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTS Rita Guarna, Carl Olsen VICE PRESIDENTS Lizette Chin, Nigel Edelshain, Thomas Flannery, Coleman McCartan, Maria Regan, Steven Resnick, Diane Vojcanin

Jewelry has been enlarged to show detail. Due to the fluctuating prices of diamonds, gold and platinum, prices are subject to change without notice and may vary depending on size, quality and availability. While we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information in this magazine, we are not responsible for errors or omissions. ACCENT is published by Wainscot Media, 1 Maynard Drive, Park Ridge, NJ 07656, in association with Mann’s Jewelers. Copyright ©2022 by Wainscot Media LLC. All rights reserved. Editorial Contributions: Write to Editor, Mann’s Jewelers, 1 Maynard Drive, Park Ridge, NJ 07656. The magazine is not responsible for the return or loss of unsolicited submissions. Subscription Services: To change an address or request a subscription, write to Subscriptions, 1 Maynard Drive, Park Ridge, NJ 07656, or by telephone 201.573.5541. Advertising Inquiries: Contact Lizette Chin at lizette.chin@wainscotmedia.com. Printed In The U.S.A. Volume 20, Issue 1. ©2022

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A NOTE FROM NANCY MANN, CEO OF MANN’S JEWELERS

2022 is off to an exciting start for our family as we celebrate 75 years of Mann’s Jewelers in Rochester, N.Y. We have canvassed our archives and have marvelous historical photos we’re excited to share of MJ throughout the years. In this issue of Accent, you will read the first half of a two-part series, detailing the history of Irving and Gertrude Mann’s dream of opening a business in Rochester. We were thrilled when we learned that Mary Stone, a talented local writer and college professor, had interviewed Irving in 2005 for close to three hours for a business publication she was working for at the time. By some sort of miracle, we were able to get his recorded words transcribed, and they come to life in this poignant interview. Always a wonderful storyteller, reading Irving’s words takes us back to the very beginning. Another wonderful storyteller is our longtime friend, British jewelry designer Stephen Webster. Designed for rock stars and legends, Stephen’s namesake jewelry has adorned celebs like Elton John, Elizabeth Taylor and Madonna, in addition to scores of other household names. Most recently, he created the bespoke emerald and diamond ring that Machine Gun Kelly presented to Megan Fox to commemorate their engagement. We thought it would be fun to have Stephen share his answers to the famous Proust Questionnaire. Finally, as our weather heats up, it’s very exciting to share that there’s been an explosion of color in the world of fine jewelry. Hot, hot, hot! Color classics are always popular, but this season brings us stunning cabochon-cut and faceted gemstones, reminiscent of gorgeous gumballs. We are also favoring colorful enamel, effectively being used as a high-impact pop of color, either styled alone or as a part of your current ring stack, “neck mess” or “arm party.” In looking through the Mann’s Jewelers archives, there is a common thread: our passion for helping people express their most heartfelt feelings, one milestone occasion at a time. We value the trust you have placed in us for more than 75 years, and we look forward to helping the next generation with their meaningful moments as the years unfold.

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Temple St. Clair Athena owl ring with blue moonstone, blue and green tourmaline, blue sapphire, emerald and diamonds in 18K yellow gold. $37,000

Goshwara Queen emerald-cut citrine earrings with white enamel frame in 18K yellow gold. $1,950

Goshwara Rock n’ Roll cabochon bracelet with cognac quartz, prasiolite, amethyst, London blue topaz, citrine, lemon quartz, blue topaz and lilac amethyst in 18K yellow gold. $11,500

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ROCHESTER NATIVE & STYLE GURU COURTNEY WINSLOW TALKS SPRING/SUMMER FASHION. PHOTOS BY ALEXANDRA ELISE HAIR BY SOOZ SALON JEWELRY BY MANN’S JEWELERS

Fabulous in Rochester COCO’S TOP PICKS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER ‘70s Flare: Doesn’t just apply to denim. The creativity of hippies shows us how to be free in so many ways. Platforms in patent leather paired with psychedelic print pants are free-loving and fun. Crochet vests and dresses are swaying into your closest and are the best choices for a night of music under the summer stars. Catsuit Comeback: I was pretty freaking brave in high school to sport a catsuit to school, with big hair and thick silver hoops. Although I’d suggest a more sophisticated version this summer. I think I’d be pretty comfortable in a stretchy one-piece underneath an oversized blazer and some stilettos. No waistband, ladies! I mean, this is a gift from the fashion gods. You’re welcome, eat the damn burger. All White: Brides-R-Us called and they want their theme back. Whatevs. So many people have been waiting to have a wedding, that even people who are already married want to wear a wedding dress again. White gowns and big bows are for everyone this summer. No officiant required. Suits Everywhere (except Tuxedo Junction): Women’s fashion has taken back this unisex trend and made it sexier than ever. Wide-leg pants, low slung with movement, topped with an oversized slouchy blazer in ivory white. Or a slick emerald green crepe tuxedo jacket with lavender blouse and flared slacks. My favorite color combo this summer! The coolest way to show your feminine side is to show off your tomboy appeal. Fringe Swing: Life is supposed to be fun. Joy should come from inside and seep into everything in your closet. When you put something with fringe on, you can’t help but smile (as long as you’re not tangled in it), move and dance. People grin when they look at you—they can’t help but feel your energy. Live it, love it, shake it. Y2K Fashion: I hesitate to add this because I’m not sure how a woman my age can do this again. But I feel that you all should be warned what’s about to “Baby, hit me one more time.” Baby’s coming back with tiny tees, belly-baring denim, butterfly clips, bananas and pleated mini skirts. The 20-somethings are going to go all Bratz Dolls on us, and you should be prepared to feel old. Metallic fabrics are about all I can pull out of this time warp. Good luck, Cher!

Most important for this season? Let’s work less on being perfect and more on being awesome. I got you. You got you.

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Oversized Button-Ups: These are a great alternative to a blouse and can double as a pool cover-up this summer. I love, love my dad’s old Brooks Brothers button-down. It’s a staple in my closet. You can hit up a women’s line for some more subtle fabrics, or take your husband’s out of the dry cleaning bag and toss in the washer for a soft and worn look.

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1) Roberto Coin Venetian Princess necklace in titanium and 18K yellow gold. $4,200

2) Alex Sepkus ring with blue and purple sapphires and diamonds in 18K yellow gold. $4,925

3) Goshwara earrings with amethysts and diamonds in 18K yellow gold. $4,950

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5) Goshwara ring with amethysts and turquoise enamel frame in 18k yellow gold. $2,200

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1) Monica Rich Kosann mini Zodiac charm with enamel and 18K gold vermeil on sterling silver with black steel chain. As shown in Taurus. All signs available from $385 to $425.

2) Three-stone ring with 7.96ct emerald center and diamonds in platinum. $66,000

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4) Ippolita Lollipop Lollitini necklace in hologram colorway with rock crystal, green gold citrine, London blue topaz, green agate, Swiss blue topaz, amethyst and milky tanzanite cabochon in 18K yellow gold. Measures 36” long. $7,495

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3) Henri Daussi ombré band with pink sapphires and diamonds in 14K white gold. $2,530

4) Temple St. Clair Classic Temple earrings with tourmalines and diamonds in 18K yellow gold. $2,700

5) Monica Rich Kosann locket with pink sapphire in white enamel and rose gold vermeil over sterling silver on black steel chain. $755

6) Gucci G-Timeless watch in stainless steel with gold vermeil and pink dial. $1,400

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eager to build Last November, Evan Yurman was promoted to president of David Yurman Enterprises LLC, the jewelry design brand founded by his parents, David and Sybil, more than half a century ago. The new president, now 40, has two decades of experience with the company, having served as chief creative officer and led its men’s, wedding, high and fine jewelry businesses. Evan also supervised the redesign of the flagship store on New York City’s 57th Street. In a brief recent chat, ACCENT inquired about his thoughts, on- and off-duty. You’ve said that your vision for the business is “to build and sustain.” Tell us how you see the company evolving as you embrace your new role as president. In 2022 and beyond, we are looking to continue

to evolve our brand by honoring our heritage— craftsmanship, product, design and innovation— while also seeking to deepen our company’s roots in the visual arts and creative communities. Also, as with any business that hopes to sustain itself in growth, we must continue to focus on the employee experience and journey. What are you proudest of, professionally and personally? Growing up within the company has given me an appreciation for the incredible work that has gone into building it. My parents started this brand more than 50 years ago, and in many ways they were trailblazers in the industry. I’m excited to build on their legacy, and to continue to evolve and shape the future of the brand and what it stands for. I am most proud of our men’s business,

which I created in 2005. A creative outlet for me, it has also been a driving force in our growth. Tell us something that people would be surprised to learn about you. I love to cook! It brings me great joy to be able to share this with friends and family. I love to build on my menu when I travel, taking great inspiration from the Far East and different regions of Europe, both coastal and inland. I also enjoy meeting the people who grow and care for ingredients with the same care as I do for my designs and products. You’re paving your own way in the family business. What are your thoughts about one or more of your children following in your footsteps? I love the idea of my children joining the business. My oldest daughter, Cody, has already designed a few collections, and I couldn’t be prouder of her.

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A TOP JEWELRY BRAND’S NEW LEADER REVEALS HIS APPRECIATION OF ITS HERITAGE—AND ZEAL FOR ITS FUTURE. By Rita Guarna

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75 YEARS

MANN’S JEWELERS FROM THE BEGINNING PART I INTERVIEW BY MARY STONE

An ExtraOrdinary Life

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hen an 18-year-old Irving Mann found himself in the English Channel, shoulder-to-shoulder with other officers, he was carrying a 30-pound radio strapped to his back with no idea where he was going or what he was about to face. Soldiers like Irving wouldn’t know their destination until President Franklin Roosevelt’s voice boomed over the ships’ loudspeakers. Irving remembered the president’s words in a 2005 interview: “‘You are now about to embark on the greatest campaign, the greatest adventure of your life,’” Irving recalled. “We’re going to the beaches of Normandy.’” As the troops approached land, Irving could hear the din of U.S. weapons, the cannons on U.S. ships, destroyers and aircraft carriers. Shells whined overhead. When Irving saw the landing nets deploy he turned to his captain. “I have a problem: The rules say I cannot go down those landing nets until I can learn to swim, but I never got to that!” Irving said. “What do we do now?” With his rifle, side arms and the radio on his back, Irving would have sunk like a stone before he reached shore. The captain looked at him and said: “Mann, a bit of advice. Don’t slip.” Irving never did learn to swim. But the founder of Mann’s Jewelers survived that day and the battles that would follow. He was awarded the Purple Heart and in his civilian life went on to start Mann’s Jewelers with his wife, Gertrude. He met Gertrude in Toronto while studying watchmaking after the war and married her

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mere months after their first date. Irving died in 2015, just shy of 90; Gertrude, his wife and business partner, died in 2007 at the age of 80. D-Day was an extraordinary day in Irving’s extraordinary life. A member of the Greatest Generation, he was born in 1925, between the Spanish Flu pandemic and the Great Depression. At 10, he began working at the jewelry store his father started, near the Liberty Pole in downtown Rochester. He ran errands for his father and got to know the jewelers and customers. After he returned from the war, Irving would become an eighth-generation jeweler at his own business on 158 South Clinton Ave. But it was at the store’s current location on 2945 Monroe Ave. that I sat down with Irving, then 80 years old, to write about his business for a Rochester publication. The conversation lasted nearly three hours and stretched over his epic lifetime and beyond to the origins of the family trade in 1830s Russia. Irving was a superb storyteller, and the testament he gave to the World War II battles he fought I knew was invaluable. So, I kept the recording of his interview for 17 years on a dusty external hard drive. The audio file was so old, the format was no longer recognizable by today’s technology. In 2019 and again in 2020, I scoured the internet for ways to read the file and hear Irving’s amazing story again. This year, on the 75th anniversary of the business his children Nancy and Robert now run, I looked again and as if by magic—or help from the great beyond—I heard Irving’s voice, clear as a bell, and the historic experiences he recounted came to life again. A condensed version of that conversation follows and serves as the first in a two-part article to be published now and later this year, celebrating Mann’s Jewelers’ 75th anniversary in Rochester. It also serves as a testament to the fortitude, the integrity, courage, the deep human goodness the Greatest Generation embodies. Irving was an emblematic example.

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AL THE WATCH DOCTOR After about a year, my father left and opened up his own store, in the area where the Liberty Pole is now. My father opened up in there under the trade name, Al the Watch Doctor. I was the errand boy, and I knew all of downtown at that

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Irving: Our family comes from a history of jewelers. We go back about 200 years in the jewelry business. We are ninth generation jewelers. My children are the ninth generation. My father, his father—my grandfather—and his brother had a jewelry store in Buffalo, N.Y. back in the 1920s, and through a series of family tragedies, my uncle who was 25 years old at the time, and part of the firm, died. The firm was called Louis Mann and Sons. He contracted some sort of pneumonia, and he died at the age of 25, leaving three children. My grandmother

grieved to such an extent that in two months she also contracted this disease, and she also passed away. That left my grandfather and father. My father was a watchmaker, my grandfather was also a watchmaker. Within a year, my grandfather also passed away. So that left my father, Alexander Mann. He lost his father, his brother, his mother, and now he had a two-year-old son and a wife. He was overwhelmed and disposed of the business. He sold off Louis Mann and Sons, paid off all his debts and began looking for a job. Because he had relatives here in Rochester, he was persuaded to come to Rochester and look for a position, and he did find one. He found a fellow at the corner of Main and Clinton, and my father went in and asked for a job. He had to repair some watches and report back to him, which he did. My father asked: “Did I get the job?” He said, “That depends. Sit down on this watchmaker’s stool.” My father sat down on the stool. The guy goes and takes out a tape measure, and he goes behind my father and measures across his back. My father said, ”What has this got to do with my job?’ And he said, “It just depends whether you get the job or not. Hold still.” My father told the story so many times. The guy measures across his back and says, “Well, you got the job by an inch and a half.” My father thought, this guy is wacko. He found out the guy wasn’t such a wacko. The guy had a very small store, as I said, and a very small window. And what he did was he shoved my father into the window, with a little board in front of him, which became his watchmaking bench. And my father sat facing the street, and if he hadn’t fit into that little space, he wouldn’t have gotten the job. And so for more than a year, my father sat facing folks. I remember as a two-year-old going by with my mother and saying, “There’s Daddy.” And people were stopping all along Clinton Avenue, looking at this fellow fixing watches. That’s how he started in Rochester as a watchmaker, exposed to the Clinton Avenue traffic. And that’s how Mann’s Jewelers began, in a very peripheral way, with my father in that window 6-feet wide and a working space no more than 3 feet. He had less than an inch on each side to maneuver in.

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time, from West Main Street to East Main Street. You name the building, they were all filled with craftsmen: jewelers, watchmakers, designers, engravers. So I got to know the personalities of all of these jewelers. I’d walk in, they’d hand me some candy or some gum, we’d talk awhile. This was in the 1930s. By 1935, ’36, ’37 I was already being utilized. Being in the store, I could hear what was going on. I began to acquire information about the industry from many different facets: from the standpoint of the craftsmen, from the standpoint of the customers who were walking in. I used to stand around and listen to what the jewelers were saying to the customers. So, it all stuck, way back in there someplace. It’s been a treasure of information I’ve relied on through the years.

DIPLOMAED AND DRAFTED IN THE SAME WEEK I graduated from Franklin, in the class of ’43. Franklin was a phenomenal school at that time. From there, I was very fortunate to receive a wonderful letter. They handed me my diploma with one hand and my draft notice with the other. At that point, I had learned some watchmaking and thought that I was going to be involved in repairing and working on military aircraft and tanks and things of that nature—with instruments, which is what they told me I would be involved with. Instead, they sent me to infantry basic. And so, I became an infantry man and got my training and maneuvers and all that done in Mississippi. However, they had promised me that once I completed my basic training I would go to officer candidate school in the field of military instruments, until one day the captain pulled me in and said, “Mann, you’re going to the next level of infantry training, amphibious training.” He said we were preparing for something big, and they were taking everyone out of training. Next thing I knew I was on a boat to England, where in the South of England we practiced assaulting beaches for invasion work. We did that for three months, and by June of ’44 I was on a boat in the English Channel. I never saw anything like it. You felt that you could virtually walk from one ship to another. All the ships were that close together and that many in the English Channel. Coverage of aircraft was constant. We had no idea where we were going until President Roosevelt came over the loudspeaker on all the ships and said, “You are now about to embark on the greatest campaign, the greatest adventure of your life, and we’re going to go to the beaches of Normandy.”

and that kept up all the time. We started to climb down the nets. I had never learned how to swim—to this day. And part of the instructions to the officers that since they were going to be an amphibious force was that everybody had to learn to swim, do so many laps, and so on. Well, I was involved at that time with radio work. That was a specialty that they assigned to me for this project. And I carried a 30-pound radio on my back where I kept communication with our outfit as well as with artillery and other companies. Once I knew we were going down the landing nets, I said, “I got a problem.” I said, “The rules say I cannot go down those landing nets until I can learn to swim, but I never got to that. What do we do now?” And he looked at me and said, “Mann, I have one bit of advice for you. Don’t slip.” With that 30-pound radio on my back, carrying a rifle and side arms and all the rest, had I slipped off that boat I would have sunk like a stone. Other outfits were going ahead of us and hitting the beaches first. We were in the third wave hitting the beach. It was getting to be quite dark as we went down the landing nets, and there was a Jeep waiting for us in the landing craft. The lieutenant and his driver were ahead of me, and I was sitting in the back of the Jeep with a manual 50 caliber machine gun. We got to be about 150 yards from the beach, we came down and right into a shell hole. The shell hole had to be about twice the size of this room and we were in the middle of it. Amphibious Jeeps are supposed to float, but we were in this hole, and the water kept going up and up and up. And we weren’t going anywhere. The lieutenant and the driver, they both knew how to swim. I was standing on top of the machine gun watching the water come up higher and higher, and I thought, “I’m never going to make it to the beach.” Fortunately, what happened was that an amphibious tank came by us and saw that we were in trouble. The fellow who was manning the tank jumped out of the tank, went into the water, tied his tow chain around our bumper, pulled us out of the hole, and we were able to go forward onto the beach with him as our guide. That was the beginning of D-Day for us. There was a little town that we had to meet at, which was a town called Sainte-MèreEglise; it’s become quite well-known in D-Day history. (On June 5, 1944, Sainte-Mère-Eglise was the first French city liberated by American paratroopers.) “Paratroopers had landed at Sainte-Mère-Eglise ahead of us, and when we got into Sainte-Mère-Eglise and got up there eventually, there were the paratroopers hanging from their parachutes, they had been machine gunned and bayoneted while they were still hanging from the trees.” We lost a lot of people there. But after that, after we got through, we then were able to regroup with a number of our Army divisions. Our objectives were taking very small towns.

“I was standing on top of the machine gun watching the water come up higher and higher, and I thought, ‘I’m never going to make it to the beach.’”

Irving: As we got closer to the beaches we could hear our own weapons, our own ships, the large cannons aboard the ships, the destroyers, the aircraft carriers. It was a constant din of shells whining over your head and hitting the beaches just ahead of us

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UNDER GENERAL GEORGE PATTON And we continued on, we lost a lot of people little by little. And we were transferred from the company that was being run at that time by Omar Bradley who was our general. And then when we hit a certain level, we were transferred over to General Patton. So, he became our leader. He had his orders. And regardless of how many men that took, he was going to take the objective. Over a period of time, we ran into a number of incidents. I could go through various wars and battles that we went through.

THE TRENCHES One major one happened two weeks after we landed. In Normandy, the hedgerows grow, you know, they’re about 7 feet tall. And they’re big blocks of mounds of Earth. They separate various areas for wine and that kind of thing. But the hedgerows are wonderful from the military standpoint because if you hide behind one, nobody can see you. Of course, you can’t see them either. But it was mostly hedgerow country that we were working through. We were still pretty fresh. I was in pretty good shape physically. So we hit in an area where suddenly there were Germans up ahead of us on the other side of a series of mountains. And we couldn’t go any further. They were laying it into us with all kinds of weaponry and mostly they are ADH, which are guns that are so fast—the best weapon they ever had. Boom. It hits before you hear the sound. So they were letting us have it, and we got the word to dig in. So I had my little shovel, and if you ever saw a dog going after a bone, I dug into that mound as fast as I could. I dug myself a goodsized hole in a very, very short time. One that I could actually crawl right into. And I had this one guy I went through basic training with who wasn’t that ambitious. He was a lot bigger than I am. I was 5’6” and he is about I’d say maybe about 5’10”, I don’t know, maybe 6’. He was big and broad. And we were buddies. So he dug, but he only dug a shallow trench. And when the artillery kept coming pretty heavy, he realized he didn’t have that much protection. So, he saw that I was in this cocoon I dug for myself, he comes in and he jumps on top of me. I said, “Tony, get the hell off of me; you’re squashing me.” He said, “Shut up.” He said, “They’re going to kill me out there.” I said, “Well, why don’t you dig a bigger hole?” He says, “Stay down there.” So I’m crunched down into the hole, and then they started with mortars. Mortars are locked, and they only had us focused in so they were starting the shells hitting on top of the hedgerow and coming down. I could hear “zoom, zoom,” the shrapnel coming very, very close to us. So we couldn’t move. And suddenly, a section of the 82nd airborne paratroopers started to come to our position, and they drew the fire of the Germans toward them because they were running pretty fast. We got the whistle to retreat, get back to our own position. So I said, “Tony, let’s get the hell out of here.” And you know, I’m shaking. He’s just lying there. I said, “Let’s get out of here.” No response. So I’m trying to get out of there. “Come on, Tony.

Stop screwing around. Let’s get out of here! They’re going to start to zero in on us again.” No motion. So finally, I worked my way out, flipped him over, and he fell back. And the back of his head was gone. The shrapnel came down and sliced it. That would have been me. No question. That probably would have been me. The question that remains with me and remains with me today. Why him and not me? It’s a fundamental question; it’s a philosophical question. But here he was maybe a little older than me, but maybe if he would have stayed in his own hole… maybe who knows. I thought about maybes quite a while after that, because that really shook me up. But that was one event that I’ve never, ever forgotten. And the question always remains. Here I am, 80 years old, still around and here he is, killed somewhere in France. These are things that stick in your mind because they were really momentous changes, both in your life and in how the war went. I think back from time to time, but not as much now as l used to of some of the events that occurred.

WOUNDED IN BATTLE I lasted up until three days before the Battle of the Bulge, and then I got hit. And what they did is they took me to an aid station. They took one look at my leg and said, “You know, we’re going to try to save the leg.” Then they sent me to another more advanced hospital like MASH. Very much like it. But we didn’t have any Alan Alda there to help us. They immediately loaded me on a plane and they flew me to England. That I could remember.

Q: How did you feel at that point?

Irving: In some way relieved, because when you get hit after you’ve been in combat as long as I had been, I was the very last one left in my squad. I had seen replacements come, die off, get shot and leave. And it was just a question of when you got hit. Not if you got hit, but when you got hit. Was it going to be a wound that would remove you from the combat or were you going to get killed? And so if you got hit, it becomes very traumatic. After I left the service, I had a year of psychiatric help because I would hear a car backfire, and I would be ducking for cover. It’s automatic. You can’t control it. At night thunderstorm, lightning. Middle of the night you’re sleeping, suddenly lightning strikes, the first thing I knew I was under the bed. That’s how you survive. When you’re trained that well, and if you want to stay alive, you act instinctively without thinking. It took a little over a year to get me to the point where I was able to function in a more normal way. And then after I got out of the hospital, I had to learn how to walk again. So that took four months of learning how to walk and throwing away the crutches and throwing away the cane. They were able to save my leg. I got a pension from the U.S. government. It was a big pension. Don’t laugh. I was getting $25 a month. So they’ve raised it now. You know, the pension still comes. I donate it to charity, but I still get the pension. After I was no longer combat-worthy (and it’s called limitedduty outfit) they gave us a choice. They said, “If you would like now that you’re back here in France, if you would like to have as

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a bonus,” I guess, they call it. “You could have 10 days in Paris, courtesy of the U.S. government.” But we had liberated Paris. And it was wild. Let me tell you.

Q: Oh, tell me about that. Irving: Oh, well, everything was open to the GIs at that time. The French girls couldn’t do enough for you, and the men were bringing out wine that they had buried in the ground waiting for the Germans to leave. And Calvados (a brandy made in Normandy). It was like drinking floor polish. It’s a bit rough. When Calvados is aged, I guess, for a while, it’s drinkable. But they had been making Calvados, and it was flowing like water. And how you stood up, I don’t know. I never drank, and I don’t drink today. But the complete enthusiasm of the French people no longer having the Germans telling them what to do… it was just unbelievable. That was wartime.

RE-ENTERING CIVILIAN LIFE Beauvais at one time was the playground of the rich. It is a phenomenal town. And a lot of the people who escaped the Germans kept going toward the coast, which is the Spanish French border, and they would either hide out or whatever, but found things for themselves to do. It’s very much like Morocco. When you come down from the high ground into Beauvais, you see the villages, the housing and these cottages are homes. The U.S. government took over all these cottages and brought in professors from various universities of the U.S. So there I took my English 101. I took my social studies. I took enough courses in that period of time to get a full term’s credit when I entered college. And that was really a worthwhile thing because you were being taught by very knowledgeable professors who were there to help us to sort of get back on our feet again as a civilian. Beauvais American University was a very, very wonderful idea of the U.S. government. So after that was all over with, I got back to the States. I was discharged in February of ’46. I continued on to college. I attended on the G.I. Bill, all with a pre-med concept. And then I took a look one day and I said, “Look how old I am.” At that time, at that age, life has passed you by. You spent all your years in the service. And I said, “You know, for me to continue with this medical career, I’ve got at least another seven or eight years of school because if I’m going to go into medicine, as I anticipated, I’m going to have to get into a specialty.” So I’ve got four years for a specialty… and it all seemed to be a long road. As I look back on it now, I sometimes regret not having completed it.

watchmaking school. So I said, if I’m going to go back to the jewelry business, I want to go not the way the old-fashioned people, my relatives and ancestors did it, where uncle so-and-so sits you down at the bench, and tells you: “Do this and do this, and don’t ask why. Just do it the way I tell you.” At this school, you couldn’t touch a watch, for example, for six months. Theory, theory, theory. The physics of this, there’s a chemical reason for that. So once you learned it, you knew more than just how to put two pieces of material together. You learn the “why.” I was very fortunate. I had relatives in Toronto. And I came over under the G.I. Bill. I became a student of the Horological Institute to study watchmaking. And I lived in the home of one of my relatives.

A FATEFUL BLIND DATE I was looking to associate myself with some young ladies. And I had a relative who was my age—my first cousin. So whenever I wanted to go someplace, I would say, “Gussie, how about going to the movies? Gussie, how about going to a dance?” She had a girlfriend named Gertrude. She called up Gert and said, “Look, I have this cousin of mine—I’m his companion at movies and whatever.” And she says, “How about taking him off my hands? Do me a favor.” So, we went out and had a hell of a good time, really roared. And I had such a good time, so I invited her to go out again. We met in February. I gave her an engagement ring in May. We were married in August in Toronto. But my wife came from a very impoverished family. That’s the best way to put it. They had come from Europe in 1930. And my father-in-law was a tanner in the old country, and when he tried to do tanning work in Toronto, he purchased a defective boiler, which blew up in his face. My wife at the time was in her early teens and she spoke English. Her brother had a difficult time adjusting in Canada and her sister was much younger. And my mother-in-law never spoke English. So Gert really ran the family, and she is a very, very capable and a very “take charge” person. She was a strong woman. And when I met her, she had gone to business school because she needed to help the family. So she dropped out of regular high school in Toronto and went to a business school where she studied typing, shorthand, all that sort of thing. She already had a part-time job by the time she was 15. And by the time she was seventeen, she was working full time with different companies.

“She had a girlfriend named Gertrude. She called up Gert and said, ‘Look, I have this cousin of mine... How about taking him off my hands...’”

WATCHMAKING SCHOOL Q: Tell me about how you met Gertude.

We married in Toronto and came to Rochester afterwards, and I worked for about two or three months with my father, and I decided that I would open up on my own. And I found a place at Clinton and Court, right where the telephone company is now, right next to the church. I opened up there, and we had a routine. And my kids never—I don’t think they really appreciated how we started. Gert got a job working around the corner for a silkscreen

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Irving: OK. My cousin had graduated from a school in Toronto that’s called the Horological Institute (English translation)

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company upstairs of a laundry called Deluxe Laundry. We came downtown at 7:30 in the morning. She would go right to her job, and I would open up the store, at 8:00 in the morning. I didn’t have any customers to speak of at that time. So my father, who took in a lot of trade work, a lot of work from other jewelers, would give me some. I would work on the watches and give them to him, and I’d get a commission on whatever I did. Jewelry was… forget about it. I didn’t have any money for that. So it was watch repair, watch repair, watch repair. But the routine really developed. The store that I started was in the lobby of an apartment house. It wasn’t really a store until I took it over. It was ten feet long and 10 feet wide. You walked up brick stairs and at the top of the stairs to the left, I put a watchmaker’s bench. So people would walk up the two stairs, turn, and there I would be sitting at my bench. I would get up, take care of them. And then they would then go back down the stairs. And there were no facilities in there except a sink that fit in the corner. A little sink with a closet closing. We browned-bag it every morning, and Gert would come in for lunch during her lunch break from around the corner. We had a garbage can…and we had a very, very thick Formica circle cut out by a carpenter, and we put that on top of the garbage can. And that became our seat, our chair. Then we would take the same type of Formica and put it over the sink, and that was our lunch table. And we did that for years. Well, let’s see, about four years, getting the store going. So our routine was work and work and work and try to put a buck aside and we didn’t spend anything that we could speak of. And then after four years or maybe a little less, Gert quit her job as a secretary and became my secretary, because by that time, I was starting to get people off the street who seemed to like what I was doing. I was getting customers from the Rochester Business Institute. I was doing class rings and things for students. Then I started to make prom favors. I used to take orders for prom favors. And I kept adding more and more things. And every year there was an opportunity to expand, in other words, somebody would empty out an apartment right behind my backdoor. So what we would do is, we’d knock through that one door and take over the apartment that was vacant. And I’d add some more room to the store. Then somebody would give up another apartment. Eventually, we went from 100 square feet to 1,500 square feet by just taking over these apartments on the same floor. Eventually, before I left, that store was shaped like a right angle. And we sold Sunbeam toasters, Brothers sewing machines and typewriters. Well, you name it and I sold it, if I could make a buck with it. We sold appliances. Oh, and I had a greeting card section in there too. There wasn’t anything that was beneath the image, because there was no image. I wanted to get as much funds in to make the store and the business grow as quickly as possible, and as much as possible. And so whenever I saw something that I could buy and make a profit at, that’s what I would do. And this kept up for quite some time. Eventually, I was there for 23 years, at which time, as I said, the store grew to 1,500 square feet, and we were quite

successful. And that was when Xerox moved in across the street. I grabbed a Polaroid camera, and I went out and I took a picture of the Xerox tower, and I created little keys like the key tabs like I did with my prom favors. It had the pictures of the Xerox towers, and then around it was written Xerox. And then I had 2,000 of them made. I attached them to keychains with the gold or silver finish, but they were base metal. I made them in solid gold for Xerox leadership, and then I gave sterling silver ones to the next level of the administration. And you know what? They suddenly were coming downstairs for their watch repairs. I built up a pretty good following with Xerox. When word came from Urban Renewal that they were going to tear the building down, and “Mr. Mann, you’ve got to get out.” It was one of the most dramatic things that hit us. Here we took 23 years to build this business up, and now they’re throwing us out with no place to go.

A NEW LOCATION ON MONROE AVENUE Q: But you went to the suburbs. Irving: Well, what happened was that we didn’t know where to go. Here we had a year to move out. We looked around. I went to my bank. You might find this interesting. I’ve been dealing with this bank for years. I went to the head banker. They’ve been dealing with me for all these years. I said, “It looks like I found a place to go,” because Gert had found this location here (on Monroe Ave.). There was a shoe store going out of business here, and she happened to come in for the sale. She looked around, saw it, and she said, “You know, this is a good spot to move to.” I came in and took a look at it. And I said, “But there’s nothing out here.” There was no Pittsford Plaza, there was nothing. But there was a Loblaws on one side… and there was a Key Drug on the other side. Q: Loblaws was a grocery store?

Irving: Grocery store. It was like an early Wegmans. And they do draw traffic, and they do have the parking. So then I sat down with my paperwork, and I went down with my customer list that I developed for 23 years. I found a very interesting thing. I found out that, yes, my business was with people who worked downtown. You know, the people who worked in the offices. But their wives, their homes, were in Pittsford, Brighton, etc. Now where do you want to be? Where the women are or where the men are? The banker took 80 percent in collateral in order to get the $150,000 I needed to build out the store. It was a 10-year loan. I said to my wife: “You know, if this thing fails, we’ve got to start all over again.” And after 23 years, I now have a family. Are we really going to take this chance? I signed the note and turned over my collateral, life insurance policies, everything. And in two years, we paid off the entire damn loan. Q: You must have second guessed yourself a little bit.

Irving: We really spent a lot of sleepless nights, the two of us, when the kids were in bed. Just, you know, what are we doing?

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Maybe I should just get a job. You know, I can get a lot of offers for jobs. And, no, we felt this was a turning point. Twenty-three years of building a business. Well, now I’ve been here over 35 years in this place. And when we first opened it up, it was in where my watch department is, in that corner. That was the extent of the store.

NANCY AND ROBERT But it continued to build and continued to build up. Nancy was very interested in the business. When she was 6 years old, she was in the store, and my wife was working on the books in the back. Nancy came out and she saw me. She was playing with the keys and opening up the cases, and I was waiting on a customer. And I was showing the customer a watch. I said, “Is this something that you think you would enjoy?” And I’m going through my regular sales pitch with the watch. And I feel Nancy tug my pant leg. I said, “Yes, honey?” With another watch in her hands, she said, “Mister, don’t you like this watch better?” And she never stopped from that point on. She had a natural affinity for the business, and the courses she’s taken in art history and art and all of the various other things that have gone into her education have made her a very, very good CEO. That was the title I gave her. My son, Rob was never really that into the business initially. And I said,“Why don’t you come into the store to see how you like it.” He worked with his sister. Nancy is the artist, and she’s the one who sets the tone and finds all of these manufacturers, designers, etc. This is her thing when it comes to art and taste, etc. Robert, on the other hand, is now the gemologist and graduated from the Gemological Institute of America. Robert and Nancy also have learned from my mistakes. They’ve heard all these stories. I don’t know if you’re aware of the fact that in the year 2000 Nancy won the Excellence In Retail award from the Women’s Jewelry Association. She was selected by vendors and jewelers who are peers. At the event, Nancy got up and told about her background and how she grew up in the industry, how as a little girl she was around the sales floor and all the things that she’d done, and how her father and mother were there to help train her, and how she was happy to work with her brother. She gave a wonderful speech.

IRVING MANN HOMETOWN HERO AWARD My kids established an award called the Irving Mann Hometown Hero Award. And it was presented to the police officer, the most heroic police officer of the past year. And I was there to help present it. Robert presented the actual physical award. Robert went through this whole thing about “my father was a hero to us.” I have to tell you I got a little teary-eyed. Robert said, “He’s been a hero to a lot of people. So that’s why we’re naming this award in his name, in his honor.” So I have to say that that’s one of the high points of my business career.

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NANCY MANN CHALLENGES JEWELRY DESIGNER STEPHEN WEBSTER TO THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE.

Stephen & Proust

INTERVIEW BY NANCY MANN

Q: What do you consider your greatest achievement? SW: Apart from being 50 percent responsible for two amazingly talented and lovely daughters, my “greatest achievement” has been receiving an MBE from HRH the Queen of England. The honor was in recognition of the mentoring and training that have become integral to our business since creating Rock Vault over 12 years ago.

Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness? SW: Perfect happiness is a gin martini with my family in our kitchen, overlooking the English Channel, with a clear view of France. The street on which we live is the final frontier before Europe, so close that all cell phones welcome you to France. It’s a great way to hide.

SW: My current state of mind is hectic as usual. I just returned from Moscow where we opened a beautiful new boutique. This coincided with President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, where we also have a boutique. We know more than most how horrified most people are on both sides of this terrible situation that has deeply affected my, and millions of others’, state of mind.

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Q: What is your favorite occupation? SW: Having been a jeweler for 46 years, thank god, it’s also my favorite occupation. Once I realized that my day job was not just limited to the days, I thought I had better start blurring the lines between work and play. Most people I know would say I have pulled that one off seamlessly.

Q: What is your most treasured possession? SW: My most treasured “material” possession has to be my 1959 Ford Thunderbird. I bought it for $5,000 after our first successful US trade show in 1999. Since then, along with my close friend Jeff Feero, we have completed 15 road trips, covering 38,000 miles of American high roads, low roads and long and winding roads. Despite the two of us having invested considerably more restoring and maintaining the “bird” since that original investment, the experiences we have had make this my most treasured possessions.

Q: What is your favorite journey? SW: My favorite journey is taking the high speed train on a Friday evening from central London to the Kent coast, to where we have our family home. It’s only 1 hour 10 minutes, but I am transported to a place that feels like a world apart.

Q: What is your most marked characteristic? SW: My marked characteristic is that I enjoy life, and it tends to rub off on people.

Q: What is your greatest fear? SW: My biggest fear is known as FOMO. Fear of missing out.

Q: What is your greatest extravagance?

Q: What is your greatest regret? SW: No regrets. My daughter and I both have that tattoo. We don’t even regret those.

Q: What talent would you most like to have? SW: I’m happy to be talent-free, it’s less stressful.

Q: What is the quality you like most in a man? SW: A great sense of humor and perhaps a matching tie.

Q: What do you value most in your friends? SW: I’m so lucky to have some amazing friends all over the world. Friends are there for each other when needed—including buying a round.

Q: What do you consider the most overrated virtue? SW: Any one of the seven heavenly virtues tend to be overrated.

Q: What words or phrases do you most overuse? SW: My most over used phrase: A gin martini, extra dry with a twist, please.

Q: What is your motto? SW: I refer to my previous answer: No Regrets.

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SW: My greatest extravagance is my love of art. I’m still buying art despite having no more bare walls or even spaces. The next step

is going to add to the extravagance: I’m planning an extension for no purpose other than to be a gallery. That feels extravagant.

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The Skinny on Fat Q & A WITH PLASTIC SURGEON DR. ASHLEY AMALFI

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We hear there is an alternative to breast enlargement that doesn’t involve an implant. Do tell!

We have seen a huge rise in patients seeking a more natural option for breast enlargement. While breast implants are the gold standard to change your cup size, there are some other options we can use to achieve your goals. Fat transfer to the breast is one of the top procedures I perform to enhance the breast. While this doesn’t typically give a dramatic change in cup size, it will likely fill out the cup size you wear and prevent that bra-gapping that we all get after having kids. With repeat rounds of fat transfer, we can actually change the cup size and keep building upon your breast using your own tissue.

So how does this work? You’re saying you can take fat from one area of the body and inject it into my breasts? What a dream…

Yes, exactly! That’s why this is such a great option for the right patient. We use liposuction to remove fat from an unwanted area. Common spots women choose are their tummies, love handles (iliacs) or inner and outer thighs. The patient’s own fat cells are then processed and reinjected into the breast to improve shape and upper fullness. Not all of the fat survives the transfer process, but on average about 60 percent of the fat remains after about three months.

How long do the results last?

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Once the fat incorporates, it is a part of the breast and results last forever. It will change with weight loss or gain just like it did in its original location in the body. And the bonus is that the donor site looks amazing after stubborn, unwanted fat is removed from that area. With fuller breasts and contouring to another area of the body with liposuction, it’s a win overall and my patients are extremely happy.

What’s the downtime?

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can do the procedure on a Thursday or Friday, and you can be back at the office on Monday, no matter how physically demanding your job. Because everything is done through tiny poke holes, there is nothing to take care of, no incisions to heal and no time away from the gym or your busy life. Patients wear some compression at the donor site (like a pair of bicycle short Spanx under their clothes), and they are back to their routines. Bruising lasts for two weeks, and swelling looks great at a month and continues to improve over the next few months. We can see how much fat will survive in a patient typically by the three-month mark.

It’s so great to have alternative options. Is there anything else you are doing to enlarge breasts without implants?

There is another technique that I am doing commonly to improve the upper shape of the breast, and this also uses the patient’s own breast tissue. The best candidates for my autoaugmentation procedure are women who have some sagging of the breast (ptosis), which is common after weight loss, pregnancy or just due to gravity over the years. In these women, instead of removing the sagging tissue, I use some of the hanging lower tissue from the breast, tuck it under the remaining breast tissue and secure it to the upper part of the chest. This moves the sagging tissue to an area where we would rather have fullness, and keeps all of the patient’s own breast tissue, creating a new breast shape. This is a great option for someone who doesn’t want to change her cup size, but wants that rounder shape and upper fullness back to her breast. Whether you are looking for a standard breast augmentation with implants, a boosted breast with fat transfer or improved shape with an auto-augmentation breast lift (mastopexy), it’s so great to have options. It allows me to tailor each procedure to my patient’s specific needs. If any of these procedures sound exciting to you, please call our office and we will set up a personalized consultation for you to discuss your options to achieve the look you desire.

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This page, clockwise from top left: Donald Budge, Fred Perry, Bobby Riggs and Frank Kovacs were popular faces on the tennis circuit in the 1940s; John Newcombe was a regular at leaping over the net after winning a match at Wimbledon; Suzanne Lenglen took the women’s game to new heights in the 1920s. Opposite page: Serena Williams turned pro in 1995—she has since won the most major titles (39) in singles (23), doubles (14) and mixed doubles (2) combined.

Eventually, the brightest stars of any generation will give way to new ones, and this change in a game we’ve grown to love may be difficult for some to witness. This is especially true in tennis, perhaps the most individual-focused major sport, where players and spectators alike have not just seen the departure of beloved athletes, but have also watched over the decades as familiar rules were amended and trusted equipment became obsolete. But time doesn’t stop in its forward motion, and neither does the evolution of this sport of elegance and action. Change has done tennis good ever since it debuted in the 1500s as an activity mostly for royals and clergy. It has turned into a truly global game with a fanbase of more than 1 billion followers worldwide. The ongoing evolution of the game and the competitors who affected it are documented in award-winning sports journalist Richard Evans’ newest book, The History of Tennis: Legendary Champions, Magical Moments.

Fans today know about the long dominance of Serena and Venus Williams as well as the sustained

designed to be played in the open air on an hourglass court without walls. Try picturing Roger Federer running back and forth on an hourglass court. At the helm of this transformation, Evans writes, was Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, a noble and keen court tennis player himself. He gave the game the Greek name “Sphairistike” but later renamed it the more pronouncable “lawn tennis.” Though the unique shape of Wingfield’s court didn’t stick, lawn tennis eventually caught on with England’s croquet players. By 1875, the popular club on Worple Road in Wimbledon renamed itself the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club.

GROWING THE GAME It’s believed, Evans notes, that American Mary Outerbridge got hold of one of Wingfield’s boxed sets during her travels and brought it back to her home in Staten Island, N.Y., around 1874. She played the new game with family at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club, where the Staten Island Ferry ports exist today, marking the first time tennis was played in the United States. The club helped promote the

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excellence of the men’s Big Three, who seemingly always end up in the finals of any given major tournament. But do you know that star power has been a continuing theme since the beginning, when the English King Henry VIII and the French King François I were considered the highest-level court tennis players? (Court tennis is played with walls similar to modern racquetball.) Though contemporaries, these stars never squared off on the court; being royal rivals, they often preferred a jousting lance rather than racquet and ball to settle scores. “But, for sheer star power,” Evans writes, “King Henry VIII vs. King François I probably remains the greatest match that never happened.” Tennis grew beyond the kings and queens when the Industrial Revolution gave birth to the middle class, giving more families access to gardens and grass. Soon, those with financial resources were looking into games to play on the pristine lawns, and the game that originally started on a wall-surrounded court moved to the greens. Modified rules and equipment soon followed—and were all boxed and sold. The most significant change, however, was that this game was

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game, holding a tennis championship in 1880. One year later, the United States National Lawn Tennis Association was formed, thanks in part to a fellow named Dwight Davis Sr. Davis was a Midwesterner who attended Harvard, and he and his friends were fans of the America’s Cup yacht race. The international boating competition spurred the idea for a major lawn tennis tournament, which Davis launched in 1900. Described then as “the World Cup of Tennis,” the team competition continues today under the “Davis Cup” moniker and features nearly 140 countries. In his book, Evans details the early days of tennis and the Davis Cup in the early 1900s and then its boom throughout Europe and the United States after World War I. Tennis clubs expanded venues and stadiums to accommodate the growing crowds that came out to see such grand champions as Bill Tilden, René Lacoste and Helen Wills. And the stands remained full when those stars began to disappear.

Writes Evans: “The sweet game would be lost to the thousands who poured into Roland-Garros, Wimbledon and the U.S. Championship each year, but tennis has always had the knack of renewing itself and soon there were new stars to admire.” There were different eras in the 20th century, with gentlemen like Sidney Wood, Jack Kramer and Ellsworth Vines Jr. winning in the ’30s. Evans tells us that Kramer once said Vines “dressed like Fred Astaire and hit the ball like Babe Ruth.” Bobby Riggs, Rod Laver and Althea Gibson were some of the names to break through in the ’40s through ’60s before the sport welcomed yet another new class in the 1970s. Around the elegance of Arthur Ashe was the tough demeanor of newcomers Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Börg, both of whom “would have a huge impact on the game for the remainder of the decade and beyond.” Brash American John McEnroe also emerged as a young talent. Though women’s tennis had proven champions like Billie Jean King and Margaret Court, the game

didn’t pick up until the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) was founded in 1973 and the first heated rivalry formed. Either Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova held the No. 1 ranking in 592 of the WTA’s first 615 weeks of rankings. The duo played each other 80 times, with 61 of those matches in tournament finals. They were friends off the court, but deadly rivals on it. “They inspired each other to produce some memorable duels on some of the game’s great stages—not least, in finals on Wimbledon’s Centre Court, where Navratilova’s four wins in four were by no means easy—three of them going to three close sets,” writes Evans. There have been great women’s players since, including Steffi Graf, Monica Seles and Martina Hingis, but none engaged in such a rivalry—that is, until the Williams sisters emerged.

THE GOLDEN ERA The transition from wood racquets to lighter and stronger graphite models helped usher in a faster and more powerful game. On the men’s

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side, champions like Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi took the game to a new level, but the sport has been played to near perfection by today’s Big Three: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Each member of the trio has 20 Grand Slam titles, a mark eclipsed only by Serena Williams. Though younger sister Serena has 23 major titles compared with Venus’ seven, Evans notes that the older sibling had a storied career as well. “In some ways, Venus has enjoyed an even more extraordinary career than Serena,” he writes in the chapter dedicated to the Williams sisters. “The elder sister not only had to get to grips with the fact that she was the most naturally gifted of the two but, from 2011 onward, she had to battle Sjogren’s syndrome, which

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In January 2016, Canadian businessman Ben Cowan-Dewar traveled from his home in wintry Toronto to the balmy shores of the Caribbean, but sunbathing was the last thing on his mind. The co-founder and operator of Cabot Cape Breton, a marquee golf resort in Nova Scotia, Cowan-Dewar was looking for a new property to develop, a seasonal offset to the gem he’d built in the Great White North. Aside from good weather, he had two key criteria in mind. “There had to be plenty of flights, so it was easy to access from major population centers,” Cowan-Dewar says. “And it had to be a spectacular site for golf.” Easy to say. Tough to find. For all its natural beauty—the sugary beaches, the turquoise waters—much of the Caribbean has flat terrain, not exactly catnip for architecture nerds, while most of the world’s top courses lie on land with compelling wrinkles and rumples. Cowan-Dewar searched for days, puddle-jumping from one island to the next, hoping to discover a spot that met his standards. Then he found it. It was, he says, “one of the greatest golf sites I’d ever seen, anywhere in the world.” Perched at the northern tip of the island of St. Lucia (part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles), where the eastern Caribbean meets the Atlantic, on a peninsula known as Point Hardy, the property commanded nearly two miles of oceanfront. And the coastline, Cowan-Dewar says, “did everything you wanted it to do. It jutted in and out. It moved up and down. You played across coves. It was incredibly dramatic.” So clearly did the site cry out for golf that someone had already tried to build a course on it. But that project, a design-in-themaking by Jack Nicklaus, had foundered in the wake of the 2008

financial crash. Now it was available, as naturally suited to the game as ever. “I knew immediately that I wanted to do it,” Cowan-Dewar says. “Which, of course, is when the hard work begins.” A little more than six years later, that effort is about to bear fruit. One of the most anticipated courses of 2022, Cabot St. Lucia is set to open late this year, greeting golfers with a rare marriage of place and pedigree: the first Caribbean design by the vaunted architecture duo of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, who started from scratch on the property, creating an entirely new routing. St. Lucia is a volcanic island, craggy and dramatic, with vegetation that ranges from rainforest to enchanted stands of cacti, looming like sentinels along the coast. Coore and Crenshaw’s work seizes on the varied splendor of its setting, moving through changes in environment and elevation, with ocean views on all 18 holes. You don’t just see the water; you navigate it. Nine greens sit on the bluffs; several require Evel Knievel-worthy carries over inlets. Holes 6 through 9 rush up along the coast, as do holes 14 through 18, stirring stretches to close each side. Some people like to talk about “signature” holes; Coore and Crenshaw don’t. Neither does Cowan-Dewar. He can’t pick a favorite. But he is fond of the 14th, a par-5 that rushes from a lush point inland toward the water; and the par-4 15th, a risk-reward hole that big hitters can try reaching from the tee, tempted by a target cut along the cliffs. And the short par-3 16th, which plays out toward a point on the beach. And—Cowan-Dewar could go on. Better that you see it for yourself. The course will be the anchor of a real estate development, with a high-end residential community and a boutique resort, among other amenities. Premium lots are currently on sale, ranging from $2 million to $11 million. For more information, check out cabotsaintlucia.com.

Opposite page, clockwise from top: While much of the Caribbean boasts flat terrain, Cabot St. Lucia has many elevation changes and nine holes along the cliffs; the property occupies roughly two miles of oceanfront along the island’s Point Hardy peninsula; the golf course is the anchor of a high-end residential development, which features luxurious villas and amenities; a world-class culinary experience awaits all who visit the resort’s dining establishments.

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Logic tells us the joyous spirit of escape isn’t available at home; home, however lovely, is what we escape from. But logic hasn’t reckoned with the power of floor-to-ceiling windows, an oceanside setting and the genius of Juan Montoya. In the new book Designing Paradise: Tropical Interiors by Juan Montoya (Rizzoli), the acclaimed interior designer joins writer Jorge Arango to showcase living spaces that so far transcend the ordinary as to put guests in a swoon and cloak residents in subtle, day-to-day bliss. Of course, Montoya works his magic partly by exploiting vast ocean vistas that simply could never become mundane—for instance, in an apartment in the revamped Surf Club in Surf City, Florida. Here, an assortment of ancient artifacts amassed by the homeowner, a custom collection of celestial photographs and oceanic paintings and one-of-a-kind artisan chandeliers all combine with the dramatic views to create a triumphant sense of adventure—yes, in a home.

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FACE TIME The Big Short of it—Brad Pitt’s collection of luxury timepieces is as illustrious as his career. Here are a few worth ogling:

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Since 2018, Pitt has been a member of the “Breitling Cinema Squad,” an ad campaign in which he shows off pieces such as this Breitling Super Chronomat B01.

HOLLYWOOD’S HANDSOME WILLIAM BRADLEY PITT HAS A WATCH COLLECTION ALMOST AS IMPOSING AS HIS RÉSUMÉ. By Haley Longman Brad Pitt is everyone’s type. He’s classically handsome, confusingly age-defying (at 58) and instantly recognizable both by name and by face. And just in case his three decades of achievement in glamorous Hollywood don’t make us jealous enough, this multi-talented dude has a diverse collection of luxury timepieces that just won’t quit. Early in his career, Pitt was spotted wearing classic luxury watches both in everyday life and at swanky events—the handsome and versatile Rolex Explorer and Breitling Emergency were his go-tos. Breitling launched the Emergency in 1995 as a backup transmitter for downed pilots or lost adventurers, fitting for a globetrotting actor-turned-producerdirector who travels more than he sits still. Perhaps his choice in watches then was foreshadowing, because in 2019, Pitt’s Oscar-winning Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood year, he became the handsome face of the Swiss brand Breitling. He’s also one of three actors in the “Breitling Cinema Squad,” an ad campaign and social initiative established in 2018 featuring the best-of-the-best in their field (the other two are Charlize Theron and Adam Driver). The Super Chronomat B01 and Premier B01 Chronograph 42 Norton are among Pitt’s faves from Breitling, the latter a collaboration with the British motorcycle manufacturer. (Pitt is a keen motorcyclist, a hobby he shares with son Pax.) But first, in 2005 (coincidentally the year in which he met his future wife Angelina Jolie on the set of their film, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) the Oklahoma native was tapped as TAG Heuer’s spokesmodel. He owns a TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 16 Automatic Chronograph, and his character in 2011’s Moneyball famously sported the TAG Heuer Kirium, which the film’s prop master presented to the actor as an option after finding it on a crew member’s wrist. This

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particular watch has a midnight blue dial, Mercedesstyle hands, a unidirectional rotating dive bezel and a classic case build. One of Pitt’s most famous wristwatches is the iconic Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711. Rumored to be an engagement gift from Jolie, Pitt’s Nautilus has a dark dial and a stainless-steel case and bracelet and is water-resistant to 120 meters. And don’t quote us on this, but surely Pitt was given a Rolex or two by his other ex-wife, Jennifer Aniston, who herself has an impressive watch collection. Pitt owns a Rolex GMT Master II, a Rolex Daytona in stainless steel with a white dial, a Day-Date, a Submariner and a yellow gold Yacht-Master, among others. Arguably the pinnacle of Pitt’s vault is the minimalistic Cartier Tank à Guichet in 18K gold, an unusual selection that proves that this guy is no novice collector. Instead of a dial, the Tank à Guichet has a “jump-hour” mechanism, in which the hour and minutes are revealed behind tiny little windows on the metal face. It’s a limited-edition piece that debuted to celebrate Cartier’s 150th anniversary, and it is in fact a reiteration of the original Tank à Guichet from 1928. Only 100 of these have been produced globally. Clearly then, this dad-of-six picks his wristwatches as he picks his projects—thoughtfully, informedly and with concern for how each will affect his legacy. His 2022 ventures thus far include an as-yet-untitled Formula One film, along with an unexpected foray into the music industry, where he is reopening Miraval Studios, the legendary recording facility located at Château de Miraval in France. As for the long-term future? It’s hard to picture Pitt ever getting old, but of course he hasn’t defeated time; he only tracks it magnificently. In any case, it’s a sure bet he’ll always be watchable.

Pitt reportedly purchased this rare Patek Philippe Ref. 5016A with a Calatravastyle case at an auction in Geneva in 2015. The price? $6.7 million.

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Dubbed “zero-zero” as the first iteration was considered flawless, this exclusive spirit (less than 1,000 cases are released each year) is produced with a clean, environmentally friendly process that incorporates reused agave. Thus the multi-award-winning tequila is best sipped and savored. It has notes of agave and black pepper on the nose with balanced flavors of agave, green apple and toast on the palate. The extra-long finish leaves hints of vanilla and tobacco. An exquisite spirit should be paired with food that’s just as delicate: Try this one with Indian or Japanese cuisine.

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The bottle can be saved as a collector’s item, but what’s inside is too good not to be experienced. One of the original luxury premium tequilas, Don Julio Real is made of Weber agave found in Jalisco, Mexico, and best sipped neat and at room temperature—the way one would savor fine Scotch or Cognac. It has a gentle citrus and honey nose, with flavor highlighted by caramel, chocolate and toffee. The long finish has a slight hint of wood. Don Julio Real pairs well with sauces used in Mexican cuisine such as rich mole.

This company has made an immediate impact since its founding in 2020, and its Tobalá variety is already a leader of the agave-based spirits world. With each sip of the agave, aged 10 years, one detects aromas of dry tobacco and cocoa before the taste of vanilla with hints of leather hits the senses. The spirit’s finish is smooth with a touch of citrus and fresh grass. Handcrafted in Oaxaca as are all Lost Explorer mezcals, Tobalá spent much of 2021 racking up accolades, including silver at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and a silver with 94 points at the International Wine and Spirits Competition. Try it while enjoying chocolate with caramel sea salt.

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Long considered one of the world’s finest tequilas for sipping (and cocktails), this spirit is made from Weber blue agave and aged in American and French oak barrels in Jalisco. Its color is dark amber, and its aroma recalls fine Bordeaux wine with a taste of oak wood, vanilla and raisins. With a velvety finish and unique smokiness, Gran Patron Burdeos is a fantastic sip for those dining on barbecued meats such as grilled chicken, or a companion to desserts made with rich chocolate.

World-renowned for its luxury tequila, this company last year honored a lesserknown region of Mexico with the release of Clase Azul Mezcal Guerrero. Its artisan decanter is surpassed only by the unique flavor of the mezcal, made from 10 percent Papalote agave, which is specific to Guerrero. One takes in grapefruit, rosemary and hints of daisy on the nose while tasting seaweed, lemon juice, pepper and notes of tobacco on the palate. This spirit pairs well with seafood cooked with lemon and butter and sweet treats such as white chocolate with jam.

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The maker of this exclusive tequila handcrafts its spirits using steamed blue Weber agave from fields near Guadalajara. Its limited-edition blanco is produced in small batches and bottled in a French decanter that pays tribute to the Day of the Dead. Its fragrance has notes of fresh herbs and lemon, while its smooth and subtle taste is of sweet honey agave with hints of spice. A smooth vanilla finish offers a clean and dry aftertaste. Try a sip with a sweet chili shrimp appetizer for a wonderful sweet-and-spicy combo.

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Founded by a Mexican team based in New York and Oaxaca, this ultra-premium brand launched a small-batch mezcal in 2021, paying tribute to the traditional process of using more than one agave type to make the spirit. Known as Ensamble, Agua Mágica is a blend of Espadín aged seven years and 15-year-old Tobalá. It starts with a light sugar cane juice on the nose and has a pronounced smoky taste like many mezcals—but not overpowering. One detects hints of grapefruit and roasted nuts before enjoying a lavender finish. In addition to making great-tasting mezcal, Agua Mágica supports an “Empowering Mezcaleros” program, which assists family-run palenques (distilleries) with the certification process to sell their mezcal.

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ity figures, and it was later denounced by the Catholic Church and other religious and political entities because it was seen as sexually suggestive. Economic turmoil, Argentina’s political struggles and the rise of other forms of dance and music helped cool the tango fever—for a while. The dance remained relatively dormant until the 1980s and ’90s, when Argentine singer Osvaldo Peredo and his tangoinspired music helped renew interest in the tango, launching a renaissance that has continued in this century. It was featured in films from Strictly Ballroom and True Lies in the ’90s to Frida and Shall We Dance in the early 2000s. In 2009, UNESCO declared the Argentine tango a part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Today, organized groups such as Argentine Tango USA promote the movements and cultural significance of the tango, while global events like the Buenos Aires Tango Festival & World Cup attract thousands of visitors annually. The tango is also one of the most anticipated routines on the reality competition show Dancing With the Stars (see “Buenos Aires, Where the Best Compete,” at right). Argentine tango is also taught as a fitness program that focuses on moving to the rhythm of the music and keeping healthy heart rates going. As an exercise, the tango can help strengthen muscles, develop balance and improve coordination. Healthcare professionals also praise the tango for boosting emotional wellbeing, spiritualty and mindfulness. All this, and a naughty reputation too—who can beat that beat?

Buenos Aires, where the best compete Former Olympic ice dancer Meryl Davis tangoed with choreographer Maksim Chmerkovskiy, earning a perfect score on season 18 of Dancing With the Stars in 2014. Country singer Jana Kramer and pro dancer Gleb Savchenko did the same five seasons later. There’s suspense and plenty of action with every tango routine on DWTS, but you should check out the cutthroat competition at the Buenos Aires Tango Festival & World Cup. This event, held every fall, draws more than 400 championship couples from all over the world to compete in a variety of categories. The week-long program (details still to come) also serves as a showcase for Argentina’s culture, inviting visitors to participate in varied activities, enjoy entertainment and circuses and, of course, learn how to tango. American dancers hoping to qualify for the World Cup must win the Argentine Tango USA (ATUSA) Championship, scheduled this year for July 7–10 in San Jose, California. The ATUSA Championships have seven categories, including Tango de Pista (salon tango) and Tango Escenario (stage tango), each of which has three stages of competition. Other categories—open to amateurs, professionals and seniors—are less rigorous but still highly competitive. The reigning ATUSA Tango de Pista champions are Adriana Salgado and Orlando Reyes of New York, while Anton Domansky and Alisa Burkina, also of New York, are the defending Tango Escenario champs.

IF YOU GO… WHAT: ATUSA Championship and Festival WHEN: July 7–10, 2022 WHERE: Doubletree by Hilton, San Jose, California INFORMATION: tangousachampionship.com

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Has any other dance appealed to our senses like the tango? Picture Oscar Award-winner Al Pacino, as the visually impaired Frank Slade, with Gabrielle Anwar in Scent of a Woman, as they showcased their joy and passion on the floor. Their routine, considered one of the best in cinematic history, wasn’t perfect but it incorporated both physical and emotional connections, both of them essential to this dazzling dance. The tango dates back to the 1880s, when Argentine street dancing meshed with eclectic, African-inspired styles from Uruguay. Danced by couples (as opposed to a later Spanish version that is performed by a solo woman, giving the lie to the truism “it takes two”), the Argentine tango was favored mostly by the working class and European immigrants. Many of them, far from their home countries, infused a hint of melancholy into their moves. Perhaps they gravitated to a high level of intimacy: A dancing pair locks in either an open (arm’s length) or closed (chest to chest) embrace and engages in a fast-paced, follow-the-leader game of footwork. Young men especially took to the tango, and they helped raise its popularity across the region. And when Argentina’s wealthier residents traveled and took the new dance to Europe, particularly to large cities like Paris and Berlin, the tango became a hit. As the dance spread globally in the early 20th century, it was met by some resistance. Its sassy, splashy combination of African, European and South American influences was a shock to some author-

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If the world is too much for you, try glimpsing it from afar. The Florida-based company Space Perspective will soon be ready to help, lifting you to the stratosphere in a balloon-floated capsule it calls Spaceship Neptune. You’ll relax in a spacious, pressurized, restroom-equipped cabin while you ascend to 100,000 feet and float there. Technically that’s not outer space, but it’s above 99 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere, and this craft’s panoramic wraparound windows show off the curvature of our blue planet against the black cosmos. (Carry extra socks, as the ones you’re wearing are liable to be knocked off by the view.) The Neptune provides six luxurious hours of abovethe-sky contemplation in which you and your seven fellow passengers (plus one pilot) can lean back in your reclining seats, enjoy the fine Wi-Fi, munch refreshments, sip cocktails and stock up visual memories so vivid and intense

Test your limits while soaring to the edge of the planet in Spaceship Neptune by Space Perspective. The luxury-filled balloon-floated capsule takes adventure seekers as high as 100,000 feet in the sky—that’s above 99 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere!

that even your grandchildren won’t ever forget them. No knocks on the 11-minute trips today’s space tourists are taking with those other vendors you’ve read about. But in the realm of once-in-a-lifetime experiences, sometimes more is more. Spaceship Neptune will go “up, up and away” from Kennedy Space Center at a stately 12 miles per hour, with no worries about the disorienting G-forces that affect the body in a rocket launch. Lighter-thanair hydrogen gas will be used for the balloon, with technology NASA has employed for decades, and on your return your splashdown cone will gently plop into the sea and be retrieved by a ship. Commercial flights at $125,000 a pop are set to begin in 2024, but reportedly that year’s seats are already booked, so shoot for ’25 or after. When it comes to great escapes, even the Wizard of Oz didn’t have it this good.

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Mann's Jewelers Accent Magazine Spring/Summer 2022 Edition

Articles inside

What It Takes to Tango 170 Rising High

Not Bad, Brad

If These Walls Could Talk

Cabot St. Lucia: Made for the Game

Ask the Doctor

Fabulous in Rochester

Illumannations

Eager to Build

Irving Mann: An Extraordinary Life

Stephen & Proust