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Chuck Luckman got a bargain because the cosmetics business has looked none too pretty lately. (Sales have dropped so much that many a company has had to take back merchandise from retailers.) And after 30 years of hard work, Ayer's president and owner, Mrs. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, sixtyish, had had enough...
...named it after Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Ayer, a Manhattan socialite who pioneered the sales of cosmetics in the U.S. and shocked women by telling them to scrub their faces. The Ayer company was not prospering when Lillian Dodge took over as president. Not knowing where to start, she started everywhere at once. She passed on labels, sampled powders, tested perfumes, tested cold creams on her own plump cheeks before putting them on the market...
...Sweet Song. In Washington, D.C., when cops arrested George Munson while he was thrashing Lillian May Barrett, he explained: "I wanted to find out if we were still engaged." In Detroit, Romeo St. Amour was taken to jail after shellacking wife Juliet...
...Lillian Hellman...
Drama. Eugene O'Neill's first play in twelve years, The Iceman Cometh, was second-rate O'Neill, but even so, added stature to the season. So did Another Part of the Forest, without being entirely first-rate Lillian Hellman. Meanwhile, a virtually unknown playwright, Arthur Miller, won the Drama Critics' award, with All My Sons...