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...years, and she set sail for Europe, where she opened a Mayfair salon. By World War I she was the reigning beauty adviser to British and French society. She decided to move to New York to take up the same role, but there she ran into opposition from Elizabeth Arden, a rival with whom she was to wage a famous 50-year feud - without once meeting...
Better than Liniment. Gun Bow is a race horse calculated to take anybody's breath away. A strapping (16 hands) four-year-old, he was bred by Elizabeth Arden Graham, the cosmetics manufacturer, who insists on rubbing Ardena cold cream on her horses' legs (she claims that it is better than liniment). Sired by the stallion Gun Shot, who broke down before he could prove his racing potential, foaled by an undistinguished War Admiral mare, Gun Bow showed practically nothing as a two-year-old. Last year he won six races and a respectable $41,292. Faced with...
...warm-up race at Saratoga.) Gun Bow had also changed owners again. Keeping a 40% interest for themselves, Albert and Mrs. Stanley sold the other 60% for $600,000 to a syndicate headed by John R. Gaines, heir to a dog-food fortune. Another syndicate member: Mrs. Elizabeth Arden Graham, who happily shelled out $100,000 for 10% of the same colt she sold nine months...
...campus is at Arden House, high on a ridge of the Ramapos on the west side of the Hudson, 48 miles from Manhattan. Known as "The Rock" to the hundreds of presidents, vice presidents and general managers who have studied there since the program began eleven years ago, Arden House is the former barony of Railroad Tycoon E. H. Harriman. In 1950 Eldest Son W. Averell Harriman gave the $5.5 million neo-Norman castle and its 100 acres of parkland to Columbia. Alumnus Averell and his brother Roland picked up the tab for converting the old homestead into a conference...
Elizabeth Arden could have told them she was a rough customer. So could the Revson boys. But all she looked like was a fragile little old lady, so these three tough guys, dressed up in blue delivery boy's suits and wrap-around sunglasses, broke into the 26-room Park Avenue triplex of Helena Rubinstein, who may or may not be 92 (her age is a bigger secret than her formulas). "Open the safe or we'll kill you," snarled the head hood. "Go ahead," she sneered. "I've lived my life. You can kill...