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This, he implied, was only a beginning. He discovered that she had simply assumed the name DuPont for flash effect during a career as a cosmetician and manufacturer of lady's chin straps, and that she was actually the daughter of a Polish laborer. As a perpetrator of "marital fraud," Doraine deserved neither a separation nor alimony, her husband argued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Last Word | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...have only one face and we might as well do something with it." The speaker, Polish-born Mala Rubinstein, niece and operations chief to Cosmetician Helena Rubinstein, last week gave Manhattan's WPIX televiewers the lowdown on how to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Face for the Camera | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...lipless ladies and black-bristled men, there was a rush for makeup. Governor Dewey did an expert job dabbing the finishing touches on his own pancake base for interviews. In his acceptance speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives of the candidates with purple lipstick, and a Chestnut Street barber advertised "television shaves." Singer James Melton's beard photographed as blackest of the week-with quick-footed Commentator Ben Grauer running a whisker behind. Grauer grumbled: "I have a very serious problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goldfish Bowl | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...memory of one of California's most sumptuous spectacles, he planned a sort of novelette with a cemetery setting. A poet who flops as a writer for the cinema (British, said Waugh) gets a job in a dog cemetery. He falls for a girl who works as a cosmetician in a mortuary for humans. She discovers that he works in a dog cemetery and throws him over for a mortician who works at her place. So the poet kills her, cremates her, and plants her in the dog cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Blossom by Blossom | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Neck & neck down the stretch last week, battling to be the year's top money-winning racing-stable owner, came two beauty specialists: Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden and Movieman Louis B. Mayer. Arden's Star Pilot won the Belmont Futurity and $52,940. Mayer's Busher won the Hollywood Derby and $40,470 (to become the alltime tenth best moneywinner*). The dollar derby between the stables stood: Mayer $452,605, Arden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dollar Derby | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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