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...down to Puerto Rico on an errand that is surpassingly silly but not at all foolish. They are filming a 30-second TV commercial intended to make every woman in Europe, where it will be shown, rush out to the corner parfumerie to buy a scent called Ô de Lancôme. To do this, their script says, they must make Puerto Rico look like the south of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Model Woman. She Gets $9,000 a Day | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...mystery in the competitive and highly sensitive area of fees, New York City's aggressive Elite agency recently provided clients with an astonishingly explicit schedule of the hourly and daily rates of its stable of talent. Although the fee for a high-profile beauty like Carol Alt, 21 (Lancôme), is listed as "negotiable" - meaning that if you have to ask, you probably can't afford her - the agency nonetheless appears to have something to offer almost any budget. Prices begin at $2,000 a day for, say, blond Beauty Nancy Donohue, 24. Like some thing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

When William C. Lanc, thirty years librarian of Harvard College, resigned from his post two days ago the University lost one of its most valuable servants. For forty-one years Mr. Lane has continually worked for the good of the library, with but six years intermission, when he served as librarian at the Boston Athenaeum, from the time he entered its service in 1881, until when he resigned last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EX LIERIS | 5/15/1928 | See Source »

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