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...Without any doubt the most powerful pianistic technique in the world today!" raved the Paris-Presse. Rubinstein? Horowitz? No-and to most the name on the billboards meant nothing. But the audience that packed into Paris' Theatre des Champs-Elysees included, as one observer put it, "more pianists per square foot than ever before assembled." For among these professionals, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli has long been recognized as one of the world's best-if least known-pianists...
...women over to them, emphasizing their therapeutic power and billing herself as "The First Lady of Beauty Science." She was a hardheaded eccentric who became one of the world's wealthiest women. When she died last week in Manhattan at 94, elfin (4 ft. 10 in.) Helena Rubinstein left behind a $60 million business that stretches from New York to London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro, and sells her preparations in more than 100 countries...
...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...
Rings & Rubies. Helena Rubinstein's personal wealth was estimated at $100 million, but her enjoyment of it was erratic. Her dark-dyed hair gathered back into a familiar bun, her fingers dripping rings and ruby polish, she held business conferences in her 26-room Park Avenue triplex, propped up in a garish bed whose Incite head-and footboard glowed under fluorescent light. Yet she vastly appreciated art, and acquired an extensive collection that included Renoir, Renault, Modigliani and Dali. Her jewelry was valued at $1,000,000, but she liked to mix dime-store baubles with antique pieces that...
...office in a paper bag. Until the end, though, she kept a sharp eye on her business and a relentless devotion to her personal grooming. "It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is," she insisted. "She can still apply eye makeup." At 94 Helena Rubinstein still...