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Millions of them-young, 39, and old-are doing it. The hair-coloring fad is the biggest-booming (1956 sales: $35 million v. $3,000,000 in 1946) cosmetic lift since the invention of gay deceivers. Across the U.S., 100,000 beauty shops and drug counters are supplying eager heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Tinted Women | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Harriet saw. In Paris she staked out a claim to her private gold mine-a cosmetic cream that she claimed was invented for Madame Recamier. a premature career girl of the Napoleonic era. In due course, Harriet returned to the U.S. with her saucer of cream. It was a business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Last Man | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

On Top of the World. Von Teuffel, suggest the violently pro-Harriet biographers, acted at the instigation of P'ison Jim Seymour, who had helped finance Harriet's thriving cosmetic business and wanted to keep his hands on it.* There was a mad cannonade of charges and countercharges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Last Man | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

You certainly did a wonderful job of cosmetic beautification on Nixon's profile. Are you already grooming him to look like the President?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

When Marx sent Beedle Smith some caviar, Smith, who had no taste for caviar, passed it on to his next-door neighbor at Fort Myer, Brigadier General Eisenhower. Later, Ike dropped in to thank Marx. The toymakers other military friends include NATO's General Alfred Gruenther, Strategic Air Command's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Little King | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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