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...then charge their customers about 290 for it. The eight or more items in a men's pack currently include Old Spice lotion, Gillette blades and Alka-Seltzer; the women's pack has, among other items, Pond's cream makeup and talcum, Colgate's Lustre-Creme shampoo and Grove Laboratories' NoDoz. On large campuses, bargain-happy undergrads have grabbed up as many as 8,000 one-to-a-customer packs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promotion: Big Marketing Man on Campus | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house. She also works for Aqua Velva. Joseph Cotten discusses the miracle of Bufferin, and so does Arlene Francis, for which each was paid $50,000. Imogene Coca appears for Armstrong Cork. Louis Jourdan, surprisingly, appears for Prell Shampoo. The Lustre-Creme seraglio has included Jill St. John, Juliet Prowse, Jeanne Crain, Jane Powell, Sandra Dee and Stella Stevens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Selling Point | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...whether any foreign company has a right to mine in Brazil. In Australia, where U.S companies are investing at the rate of $4,000,000 a week, the government is under mounting pressure to require part local ownership of foreign subsidiaries At a special luncheon in Paris, the creme de la creme of France's business leaders listened last week to dire predictions that their country may be over run by an "invasion" of powerful U S corporations, whose investment there has risen to $1.2 billion. Said Rene Sanson of the National Assembly's finance commission: "The potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: The Welcome Grows Cool | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...about himself without Mr. Dooley as a shield: "Disrobing in public is not to my taste. There are intellectual and spiritual pudenda as well as physical. The more clothes I put on, the better I look. I plead guilty to preferring port and Montaigne to gin and Joyce or creme de cacao and André Gide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Montaigne with a Brogue | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

Sipping white rum and pure syrup poured over ice, Martinique's mulatto intellectuals last week argued politics in Fort-de-France's breezy cafes, but the politics were French rather than Caribbean. Over breakfasts of cafe creme avec croissants, citizens of Pointe-a-Pitre, commercial center of Guadeloupe, discussed the annual four-day bicycle race partly sponsored by the French Cycling Federation. Since 1946 the islands have been departments of France d'outre-mer (overseas) rather than colonies, and their citizens have wholeheartedly accepted the notion that the 4,250 miles of ocean separating them from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRENCH WEST INDIES: Eyes on Paris | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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