Word: gwen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Novelist Gwen Davis chose to describe a character in The Pretenders by means of a TIME Milestones item, she was following what has become a kind of minor tradition: the use of TIME's name or style to make a fictional point. Authors of movies, plays and novels have worked TIME stories into their plots to show, for instance, that a character has arrived. That ploy was used in the Broadway comedy Any Wednesday and in the current motion picture Who Is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those to things about me? The device is neither...
...always with a chemical preservative added to extend shelf life. Today, as a direct byproduct of the back-to-nature health-food boom and the growing concern about ecology, beauty products of purely natural ingredients are being marketed at an ever-increasing rate. Explains Los Angeles Cos metologist Gwen Seager Taylor: "Regular commercial products may not be harmful, but they are like eating white bread with preservatives added. Natural cosmetics, like whole-grain bread, give you back what nature gave you." Where as a year ago cucumber cleansing cream was obtainable only in a health-food store or an esoteric...
...smaller, independent manu facturers who provide the most comprehensive and insistently organic cosmetics. Gwen Seager Taylor's line - Cosmetic Originals by Gwen-is distributed through health-food stores in California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New England. Gwen lipsticks ($2.50) are naturally colored with extracts of carrots, beets, eggplant, raspberries and blueberries; her face powder is a translucent blend of rice and corn. Of particular benefit to smog-bound skins are the natural-enzyme creams ($6) that "literally digest pollution" by dissolving toxic oils. Sallow, freckled or fading complexions are promised brighter days with Lights Up, a lotion...
...three T shirts last month at the Navy Exchange and there were holes in the seams of the shoulders," groused a submariner's wife. "Bring them back and we'll return them to the supplier," said Flynn. Are such nigglings a waste of a captain's time? Navy Wife Gwen Lanoux does not think so. "We feel like somebody is listening," she says...
...coveted as it used to be. Perle Mesta, eightyish, the hostess who is a household word, is back on Washington's social barricades again after an eclipse during the Kennedy years brought on by her support of Nixon in 1960. Also back is Mrs. Mesta's onetime social rival, Gwen Cafritz. Atop the whole pecking order, as she has been for so many decades, is Alice Roosevelt Longworth?daughter of President Teddy, widow of a noted Speaker of the House.* She rules the roost with her crisp wit, her well-nurtured intolerances and her long memory...