Word: revlon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...companies suffered. International Business Machines' first-quarter profit set a record ($2.67 per share) for the period, a 39% gain over the year-ago period. Both Revlon and the Borden Co. also had record first-quarter earnings. American Machine & Foundry's Chairman Morehead Patterson predicted, as quarterly earnings rose to 93? a share v. 87? a year ago, that 1961 would be "a very satisfactory year...
...that what God and good breeding stock bestow, women had best leave alone.* At long last, British women discovered that they knew better, suddenly recognized what a difference a little lipstick can make. To meet the booming demand for cosmetics, U.S. companies such as Helena Rubinstein, Elizabeth Arden and Revlon have moved in alongside such traditional powder-and-scent houses as Atkinson, Goya and Yardley to take aim on a $300 million-a-year business. Although one-quarter of British women still use neither powder nor lipstick, eye shadow sales have jumped 36% in the past year; deodorants...
...coupons. For a while Babbitt cleaned up. earned 42? per share in 1958 (v. $1.15 per share loss the year before), but last year it was back in the red. lost $1.33 per share on sales of $23 million. Lachner left Babbitt for a senior vice-presidency at Revlon. where his hard-driving style should fit in with the scenery. Until a new boss can be found at Babbitt, Alfred I. Schimpf, the board chairman, will serve as chief executive officer. In line for the top job: new President Michael P. Frawley, 55, who moved up from executive vice president...
Spring Music Festival (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reorganized under Director Alfredo Antonini, the CBS Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in ten years. The program features John Browning (piano), Aaron Rosand (violin), John Se bastian (harmonica). A worthwhile series sponsored by Revlon, evidently trying to make up for a TV past that includes the big quizzes and this season's defunct Big Party...
...shrewdest and best-liked admen ever to stroll Madison Avenue, had built BBDO from a smalltime outfit postwar into fourth place in the industry before he was forced to retire from active leadership after a stroke. No sooner had Brower taken over than he faced a passel of trouble. Revlon, Inc. pulled out its $7,000,000 account. Then, to avoid trouble with its $17 million American Tobacco account, BBDO resigned its $1,500,000 account with Reader's Digest, after an unfavorable cigarette article appeared. "Being an intellectual uninterested in money," quips Brower, "I resigned the one that...