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While the cosmetics industry for the past year has generally been sagging, Noxell has been smiling like one of its prettiest models. Its Cover Girl makeup is among the hottest major lines of cosmetics in the U.S., and a third generation of customers is now snapping up little blue jars of Noxzema facial cream, which first went on the market nearly 70 years ago. Last year sales for the company, based in Cockeysville, Md., climbed 12% to $262 million, and profits totaled $18.5 million. From 1978 through 1982, Noxell's earnings grew 15% annually. Now Noxell is going...
...stand for huggable!). We spent practically all day larking about in the pool. He couldn 't keep his hands off us, but Mum, I promise, it was good clean fun. He told us his greatest fantasy was to go to a party dressed as a frog, kiss the prettiest girl and tell her he was a prince. Well, Mum, I've kissed a lot of frogs in my time, but now I've pecked a prince! Anyway, I hope his mum isn 't too angry...
...because she is the prettiest or cleverest or most accomplished of her debutante crop. She admits that she was deemed ultra-deb partly by default: while her peers went off to college, Cornelia stayed in New York City and spent her time at stylish parties, wearing couture dresses. "Reading books for four years is an excuse not to work," she hazards, "unless you're going to be a plastic surgeon or something." Cornelia earned her high school diploma at home, by mail. "I have an education," she says. "I can add and subtract and read...
WALTHAM, Mass. -- The kick-and-run game is not the prettiest way to play soccer. Balls and bodies fly everywhere. But it can be successful, as the Harvard's men soccer team learned yesterday, dropping a 3-0 decision to Brandeis on rain-soaked Gordon Field...
...true. Meanwhile, the sisters grow older and unhappier. Of his favorite, Eleni, he remarks, "Her chest now was as flat as her back and the lines around her eyes had deepened . . . He remembered the soft-skinned, soft-eyed girl who'd arrived in America ten years before. The prettiest of them all she'd been that day, her skin the most delicate olive, lightly brushed with rose; that day she'd been a beauty." To keep the family busy, Stavros sets them up in their own rug business. But, in the great tradition of realized fantasies...