Word: ruskinism
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...Spiritual Wives." By that time, Watts' silky beard was greying and he was known as "Signer" to many a famous, whiskered Victorian. Statesman Gladstone and Disraeli, Poets Tennyson and Browning, Novelists Thackeray and George Eliot, Ruskin, and the young pre-Raphaelite Painters Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough...
Just where is the dividing line between youth and middle age? In TIME [Sept. 17], Artist Artzybasheff was described as middle-aged (46) while Druggist Ruskin was said to be young (42). Perhaps such a decision largely depends upon the age of the author...
Last week, 25 years later and $10 million richer, Lewis Ruskin was well on his way. He wound up a deal that made him one of the top powder-&-perfume men in the U.S. The deal: a 30-year contract with the Evelyn Westall Co. of New York (White Shoulders, Menace and Gay Diversion perfumes). For the "world sales rights" (virtual ownership), Ruskin will pay Westall $600,000, promises to buy $30 million worth of goods from the company during the next 30 years. From his new eminence, he curled a lip at the big names in perfumery, said...
...Small Town King. Young (42) Mr. Ruskin, no violet for modesty, attributes his success to his sharp, morning-glory wits. He likes to remember that he graduated from eighth grade at the age of ten years and nine months, from high school at 14 ("I would have been a quiz kid"). He became an apprentice at Chicago's high-class, high-priced Sargent's drugstore (today he owns half of it). He quit to take a crack at almost everything else, even spent 18 months in Italy studying to be an opera tenor, eventually decided that...
...town drugstore, he found that the most lucrative end of the drug business was selling cosmetics. He decided it might be even more profitable to make his own. So he bought Chen Yu, big-selling "class" nail lacquers, for $2 million. When Chen Yu grossed $10.7 million in 1944, Ruskin bought or formed nine other cosmetic companies, including three in England. Now he is dickering for eight French companies...