Word: kissproof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finding vanity invincible, Hungary's Communist bosses recently opened state-owned beauty parlors in Budapest. Government-operated plants began to turn out face powder, creams, shampoos, etc. But the stuff was shoddy, the kissproof lipstick ran, and women went back to the black market. Last week, retreating but not beaten, state stores were selling "imported cosmetics" at up to twelve times the price of the local products. Even so, many were ersatz products wearing fake French and U.S. labels...
Married. Preston Sturges, 52, screen director (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), writer (Strictly Dishonorable), inventor (a kissproof lipstick); and Ann Margaret ("Sandy" Mellen) Nagle, 21, actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; at his restaurant in Hollywood...