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Sleuthing led Bothmer in 1956 to an Egyptian merchant's house in Luxor. The Virginia bust had borne the inscription of Psamtik I; the base in Luxor babbled in hieroglyphs that it was a seat for "the Count of Counts, Prince of Princes, Chief of Chiefs, Foremost Nobleman of the Companions, Eyes of the King in Upper Egypt, the King's Mouthpiece in Lower Egypt." The carving clearly identified Sema-tawy-tefnakht, known historically as Psamtik's chief minister. When the part purchased in Egypt was lifted into place in the U.S., Bothmer had his moment...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. After 20 years of fun, a pastry merchant (Marcello Mastroianni) discovers that his homeloving harlot (Sophia Loren) has hoarded up enough wild oats for a wedding cake...
...Shrewd Merchant. It began quite by accident. One of eight daughters of a Cracow merchant, Helena gave up studying medicine and emigrated to Australia in 1890 in hopes of finding a husband. She eventually found two, becoming once divorced and once widowed. Before that, however, she found success. As appalled by the dry, flaky skin of Australia's hardy pioneer women as she later was by American complexions, Helena began selling a potion made of almonds and tree bark. The formula made her $100,000 within three years, and she set sail for Europe, where she opened a Mayfair...
Helena Rubinstein proved to have the better business head. "I am a merchant," she liked to boast. To give her products a scientific cast, she climbed into a laboratory smock, hired a doctor for each of her salons. She pioneered department-store cosmetic sales in 1926 at San Francisco's City of Paris, then grandly turned down orders for less than $25,000 when other stores clamored for her products. She introduced medicated face creams and waterproof mascara, was the first to send saleswomen on the road to demonstrate proper makeup for ordinary women. She was also wise enough...
Paroled in 1943 after serving only 2¼ years, Sands, then 23, embarked on a lusty round-the-world odyssey. He sailed the wartime Pacific as a merchant seaman, made up for the years of prison-enforced sexual abstinence in a ten-day romp with an American Red Cross girl in Calcutta, worked for Aramco in Saudi Arabia, dug for diamonds in Venezuela, managed five jungle airports for Panagra in Bolivia, became a skilled pilot and a top-rated sports-car driver...