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One day last summer, President Elmer Holmes Bobst of the Warner-Hudnut drug and cosmetic company phoned the head of Maltine Co., $3,000,000-a-year maker of drugs. "How about lunch today?" he asked. Replied Maltine's James Chilcott: "I'm just about to take off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Life Begins at 60 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

We have been looking for pals around America of either sex, young or old, of any complexion, anywhere in America to correspond with and also exchange with different kinds of African goods to American goods as gift. We can offer any of these Africans goods as gift and exchange to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Want a Calabash? | 1/17/1952 | See Source »

Most ivory-tower plastic surgeons are concerned with correcting some of mankind's more serious deformities-not with making "cosmetic" repairs such as nose bobbing or face lifting. This attitude is too narrow and too stuffy, according to Dr. Adolph Abraham Apton of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nasal Breakdowns | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

Monkey Tricks. The lady was wrong. Even in his earliest plates, Cecil Beaton showed himself to be a remarkably gifted photographer of women. His talent for the picturesque lie, his mastery of the cosmetic power of light, his ability to observe beautiful women with a severe detachment-almost as fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Click | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

It was like winning an Oscar for Cinemactress Claudette Colbert, when a cosmetic company bought her oil portrait of Gloria (Mrs. Jimmy) Stewart to use in its 1951 advertising campaign, and gave her another commission to paint one of Teresa Wright. Painting, Claudette explained, was an old ambition brought to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Due Consideration | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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