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Naturally. In Memphis, police arrested a 41-year-old woman for strolling on the street in nothing but powder and lipstick, suggested that she dress, were haughtily told: "I've got nothing to hide...
Because of a lack of proximity to a man's college, many of the girls feel they might as will save their lipstick and good clothes for the weekends. Sarah Lawrence is a four-year, five-day-a-week college With New York only 60 cents and 30 minutes away by train, and New Haven and Princeton within a stone's throw from there, Sarah Lawrencians realize that if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed. And so, come Friday's metamorphosis, hordes of students don skirts and heels and migrate for their weekends...
...days, she allows herself the luxury of red fingernail polish. But Mrs. Roosevelt is still not a woman who cares for frippery-she bought only one dress, an evening gown, this winter in Paris, and then only because she forgot to bring one from New York. She uses no lipstick and no powder, and keeps nothing on her dressing table but a big, black, old-fashioned comb, a hairbrush and a faded picture of F.D.R. as a young...
...oeuvres dishes, television lamps and artificial eyelashes. The flamboyant old descriptions ("Astonishing Offer," "Biggest Bargain Ever," "The Best Cream Separator made in the World") have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping at Sears for more Maidenform bras"). Most expensive item: diamonds (up to $1,795) -on the cheaper rings, "magic reflector settings make diamonds seem larger...
...Products. He started to broaden Warner's lines by buying up companies at bargain rates. He picked up Courtley's men's toiletries for $1,500,000 (last year's sales: $1,200,000), got a cut-rate deal on Chen Yu (nail polish and lipstick), and paid $1,000,000 for Raymond Laboratories, maker of Rayve shampoos and home permanents (later sold to Lever Bros, for $5,000,000). Bobst also brought out Hudnut's own line of men's toilet goods and heavily plugged such oldtime Warner standbys as the famed Sloan...