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What happened in that cosmic bacchanal to Sandra Lee and her colleagues at the cosmetic company is the sum and substance of this novel by William Sansom, a versatile British writer of travel books (The Icicle and the Sun), novels (The Loving Eye) short stories and TV plays.
The high-fashion model is a slave to the camera, a good set of bones to the photographer, another 10% to the agent, a size 8-10 to the designer and, to herself, landlord over priceless property. She is undernourished (a pallid cheek is a cosmetic's best background...
A reading of New Yorker ads that appeared during the first six months of this year, it said, turned up only 206 exaggerations. But while the hyperbole count was down, the sound of superlatives was as loud as ever. Examples: "World's most obedient bed" (a mattress firm), "newest...
COSMETIC MAKERS will have to get a safety clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for their products before they can sell them, under legislation urged by Health Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. FDA recently seized 400,000 Hazel Bishop eyebrow pencils that FDA said contained irritating coal-tar colors.
Kennedy nominees bound for New Frontier outposts as ambassadors: India: John Kenneth Galbraith, 52, Harvard economics professor, veteran Kennedy brain-truster, author of The Affluent Society. A big-picture thinker of considerable stature (6 ft. 8 in.), Galbraith has, since the inauguration, been making himself useful in Washington as a...