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...supported by various well-heeled lovers-the most favored of whom was Barras. Bonaparte, at 26, was six years younger than Josephine, but he had a hankering for older women; he had already proposed to an unwilling widow nearly twice his age. "Madame de Beauharnais," he recalled on St. Helena, "was the first woman who gave me a sense of security." He proposed almost immediately. After "inner struggles and long reluctance," Josephine accepted. "You will ask me if I love him," she wrote a friend. "Well, no. I am in a state of indifference...
...sales ($175 million in 1962) will rise above $200 million this year, despite intense competition, erratic prices and the overcapacity of the U.S. lumber industry. Last week, having completed negotiations, it was hoping for the Federal Trade Commission's approval to buy Crown Zellerbach's St. Helena Pulp & Paper Co. in Oregon. It is also looking for new properties in the South, has taken over operation of a Guatemala paper mill in its first move abroad. In a deliberate reach eastward, it recently bought a Chicago envelope company and opened a new container plant in Kansas City...
...claim to have broken the British record might be based on the 1949 birth of a boy in Helena, Ark., to Mrs. Fred Turley, who believed she was 59. But Mrs. Turley, born in France, could never prove her date of birth...
...Group is also a compendium of period ideas (the '30s) in politics, interior decoration, sex, art, child care and the management of husbands. There is Libby, devoutly literary; Dottie, the only Bostonian at Vassar who is not identifiable by tweed; Helena, impeccably educated from birth by a cultivated clubwoman mother; Polly, whose father has gone "loony" after the crash of '29; Kay, beautiful and serious, most responsive to the conscience of The Group; Priss, hereditary Vassar, destined for social work; Pokey, rich and horsy; Lakey, "the Mona Lisa of the Smoking Room," who has everything. Rich, beautiful...
Women should look first for their cosmetics at the Coop. Although the selection is limited to Eve Arden, Revlon, and Helena Rubenstein, it helps to get some things there for the discount. The best place in the Square for cosmotics, however, is the Brattle Pharmacy, 41a Brattle St. Knowledgeable clerks show complete lines of everything, and beauty consultants from various manufacturers make occasional visits. Conveniently located College House Pharmacy has lots of perfume and gum, and cashes checks...