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...Revlon, which sells more lipstick and nail polish (other products: powder, rouge) than anyone else, all this was just new gilt on an old lily. When they founded Revlon in a $25-a-month office in 1932, Brothers Charlie, Martin and Joe Revlon decided to capitalize on names, beginning with their own. They had another cardinal principle: a woman's most important points, unless she's in a bathing suit, are her eyes, lips, hair and hands...
Inside his high-ceilinged office a gilt clock ticked off the minutes through five long days. OPA conferees haggled across the flat-topped table, flopped in the black leather chairs, shuffled over to the water cooler, loaded ashtrays with mountains of smoldering cigaret butts. Alben Barkley, squinting through the humid haze scribbled down the endless formulae of possible compromise. Around the corner, in the office of Senate Secretary Les Biffle,' OPAdministrator Paul Porter waited...
...smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume: $30 an ounce. Its original formula, confided Mother Gloria, was discovered by Partner Maurice Chalom in his French chateau, hidden...
Moscow prepared this week for its gay est Easter since the Bolshevik revolution.† New bells and bells long silent will ring out from the gilt onion domes of the city's churches, whose fresh paint will be ornamented with red and white flowers, hyacinths, roses and lilacs. For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons. (Nonbelievers also rushed for white flour to make festive cakes for Red May Day, highpoint of Communism's liturgical...
...cluster of nuns settled among the spectators, and looked brightly around the old green and gilt hearing room. From the door, an aged Capitol policeman eyed them uneasily. The explosive Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill (national health insurance*) was up for another chewing by the Senate's Education & Labor Committee. Maybe the sisters should be warned, he thought...