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Shady. In Los Angeles, Yrjo E. Tossavainen, a machinist, told a beautician he wanted his blond hair, eyebrows and eyelashes dyed brown, was questioned by suspicious police, admitted the reason he wanted the renovation: "My wife doesn't like it this...
Until the Record articles began, Philadelphia had received Schireson with open pocketbooks. A thrifty man, Schireson paid aging Dr. Nathan Smilie $25 a week for the use of his name, carried on in an elegant office while Dr. Smilie stayed home. Schireson advertised himself as a kind of super-beautician: he claimed to have glorified Greta Garbo, Peaches Browning (face fixed and fat legs pared), the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Lady Diana Manners, Mary Pickford and a politician listed as "Mr. X."* Most of these people had never heard of Schireson. But his bona fide patients claim that Schireson...
...Miami Beach, a dearth of barbers forced many a soldier and workman to down an old masculine prejudice, sneak into a beauty shoppe, settle back to have his hair trimmed by a beautician...
...prosecutor's office, she had taken some $100,000 from neighbors and acquaintances by persuading them that she needed temporary loans to develop sure-thing properties, so lush with oil that the fruit on plum trees turned yellow. Among contributors to Mrs. Carr's favorite charity: a beautician, a druggist, a jeweler. She had never filed any income-tax returns, she said, because "I never gave it a thought...
...holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel's beautician. She runs around tripping over chairs, showing her well-turned calves. One line brought down the house. Says Queenie sidling up to Brutus: "Hello, honey." Sniffs Brutus: "Honey? Why, that's evenin' talk...