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...famed Mrs. Chipsian Lucy Madeira Wing, 83, resigned after 51 years as headmistress of suburban Washington's genteel Madeira School. Schoolmarm Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
...then forces him to take a job in a shop that sells religious objects. Fausto tries to relieve his misery by flirting with the boss's wife, gets fired for his pains. Not long after, he spends the night with a showgirl (Maja Nipora), comes home smeared with lipstick, wakes up to find wife and baby gone. After a desperate search, Fausto discovers them both at his father's house, but unfortunately he finds his father too, who gives him a good, old-fashioned spanking...
...Service. In Hamm, West Germany, after being fired for refusing to wear lip' stick, Elisabeth Schössler took her ex-employer to court, won pay compensation, went to work for another shop in the same capacity: lipstick saleswoman...
Under the headline "Cancer Suspects" appearing in your Aug. 27 issue, you list "Beta-naphthylamine, used as a dye fixative in many lipsticks and chewing gums." As far as we know, and we have checked with all of the important technical experts in the lipstick field, beta-naphthylamine is not used in lipstick at all. Nor is it an intermediate of the various dyes which are used in the manufacture of lipsticks, and accordingly cannot even appear therein as a contaminant...
Others Are in a Hurry. Marilyn's lateness has since become legendary. She once missed a plane because she stopped at the boarding gate to smear a little more lipstick on. Already half an hour late for a mass reception in her honor, she ducked into a ladies' room and was not seen again for 45 minutes. She was even two hours late for her own appendectomy. She went to a psychoanalyst about her lateness; a friend says it was no good because she always walked in when the hour was almost over...