Word: grahams
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Filed for probate in Manhattan, the will of the late Elizabeth N. Graham, better known as Elizabeth Arden, disposed of an estate valued at some $50 million by settling $2,000,000 on a niece, Mrs. Patricia Graham Young; $4,000,000 on her sister, Vicomtesse Henri de Maublanc; $1,000,000 on a nephew, John B. Graham; and a total of $3,000,000 on maids, chauffeurs and some 200 employees in her beauty empire. The principal beneficiaries: New York State and the U.S. Government, which will take approximately $39 million in estate taxes...
...Graham Hurlburt Jr., Director of University Food Services, said yesterday that rates will be reassessed in February "after crops have been harvested and we can better judge the extent of price rises." He quickly added that an increase at that time would be highly unlikely...
...years, "Mrs. Graham," as she preferred to call herself,* began to market creams and lotions separately, added perfumes, and in 1915 dared to introduce New York to the mascara and eye shadow that she imported from France. In time, her cosmetics, some 300 varieties of which are sold today in 44 countries from South Africa to Tibet, became primarily responsible for a gross income estimated at well over $15 million a year; but it was in her salons, invariably marked by a red entrance door, that she created the basic Arden mystique by militantly advertising that "every woman...
...Along, Fight." Racing fans knew Mrs. Graham best for her third Maine Chance Farm, built for horses, not women, in Lexington, Ky. She bought her first race horse in 1931, and by 1945 she had built her stable into the nation's top money winner (TIME cover, May 6, 1946). Arden babied her horses as much as she did her customers, piped music into their stables, ordered her grooms to treat the animals' cuts with Ardena Eight Hour Cream, massage their legs with Ardena Cleansing Cream. Because, or in spite, of this treatment, her Jet Pilot...
Died. Florence Nightingale Graham, 82, who as Elizabeth Arden made a beautiful fortune; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING...