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...according to Israel) and keeps a close eye on her empire. She built an estimated $1 billion-a-year business from a face cream brewed up by her Hungarian uncle (who also made simple fragrances, mudpacks, a poultry lice killer, and who died broke). In the industry she has been an innovator and an astute adapter, popularizing the gift-with-purchase gimmick, scent-free "hypoallergenic" cosmetics (Clinique), and a skin-care line for men (Aramis). Along the way she was helped by her patient husband Joe Lauder, who died nearly three years ago, and especially by her elder son Leonard...
...nothing are Lauder's curtains copied from the Schonbrunn Palace. In the past, according to Israel, she has beguiled the press with tales of a gently bred Hungarian-Viennese mother, a Czech father with imperial connections, a childhood spent on an estate in Flushing, N.Y. Now she tells most of the essential truth: her parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, and she grew up in the shabby Corona section of Queens. Israel gleefully supplies many more humble details, but Lauder gives what is probably the most important one: as a child, little Josephine Esty Mentzer was ashamed...
CAPA'S CHILDHOOD WAS anything but normal. Born in Budapest in 1913 as Endre Friedmann, Capa had very little time to enjoy his Hungarian heritage before he was kicked out of the country for participating in leftist agitation against the authoritarian government. From the tender age of 17, Capa was by himself...
...Princeton graduate and best-selling author of a travel guide series called "The Acccidental Tourist." Tyler's wonderful irony describes how, in spite of the successful career he has built living out of hotels, Macon hates travel, especially to anywhere foreign. A true American tourist, he distrusts the exotic. Hungarian paprika makes him sneeze; his taste consistently tends toward American which, to his xenophobic mind, means the assurance of safety, the familiar: home...
Poodies -- A group of four women who play "old-time string band" and Southern Appalachian music. Ruth Rappaport says they distinguish themselves by playing Tex-Mex and Hungarian music, while using rock-a-roll rhythms. They perform once a week along Brattle...