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Like the hero of a soap opera, Lever Brothers' Charles Luckman this week embarked on a new adventure. Lever went into the cosmetic business: it bought Manhattan's Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc. For one of the biggest U.S. cosmetic companies, with gross sales of $6 million to $8 million a year, the price was low-only $5,500,000 for the stock and working capital of Ayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Luckmcm Branches Out | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Chuck Luckman got a bargain because the cosmetics business has looked none too pretty lately. (Sales have dropped so much that many a company has had to take back merchandise from retailers.) And after 30 years of hard work, Ayer's president and owner, Mrs. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, sixtyish, had had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Luckmcm Branches Out | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...never expected to go into business in the first place. When she married, she settled down with the intention of raising a large family. She had only one child before her first husband, Vincent B. Thomas, suddenly died in 1918, and she had to take over his business, the Ayer company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Luckmcm Branches Out | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Harvardevens Village, University outpost at Ayer, Massachusetts, has invited the cast of "St Joan" to perform at the Village Recreation Hall on Monday evening. This marks the opening of what Donald Hunt '49, Village spokesman, described as an attempt to secure "more good entertainment at Harvardevens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cast of 'St. Joan' Will Perform for Devens Villagers | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

Freshman who placed in the swimming meet: Killoran, Johnson, Phinney, Wood, Sicular, Barnett; Woods, Ayer, Fox (medley); Sicular, Killoran, Phinney (relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Take Wrestling, Fencing Honors, Lose to Exeter Swimmers | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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