Word: revlon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all the deceptions sponsored by Revlon, Mr. Charles Haskell Revson might have been flabbergasted, or again he might not. At any rate, I would expect so colorful a character to admit to something more exotic...
...that Charles Revson is better known to this TV viewer, I have bought my last Revlon product...
...underlings and admen who do not know them, Revson is a merciless taskmaster. He has axed his way through seven different ad agencies in the past three years, rubbed off dozens of account executives. At one time his executive turnover was so great that people who stayed at Revlon a year, so the story goes, got together and had an oldtimers' lunch...
...least one day a week, Revson dons a white coat and roams through the company's laboratories, where Revlon this year is spending $1.1 million on research, more than any other cosmetics firm. His eye is so sharp that he can pick out the one imperfect lipstick on an assembly line of hundreds, his standards so high that he has been known to throw away $1,000,000 worth of lipstick because its shade was just a little...
...psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels in a wide range of colors...