Word: swansons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wigmaker, started improving on nature in Hollywood, the screen's silent sirens wore only two kinds of powder-white and flesh-colored-both as pasty as dough. Factor developed new. softer powder shades, more complimentary rouge tones, and an easily applied foundation grease. Soon such stars as Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford and Clara Bow were wearing Factor makeup off the movie lots, and U.S. women, who had previously thought that any makeup made them look "fast," started clamoring for the natural-looking powder and rouge. When Jean Harlow suddenly became a platinum blonde, Max Factor was ready...
...EDWIN SWANSON...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Gloria Swanson and Lightweight Champ Paddy DeMarco...
...Swanson agreed to an easy solution. In Lois Bramblett's place on the payroll, they decided to substitute Swanson's wife, Margaret, who would then turn the money over to Bramblett. Result: for 16 months Margaret Swanson was carried on Bramblett's payroll, though she did not work for him. She kept only enough of her salary to cover income tax, kicked back to her "employer" at the rate of $3,300 a year...
When Bramblett's manipulations came to light, Clerk Irving Swanson lost his job and Congressman Bramblett was brought to trial on seven counts of making false statements to the House Disbursing Office. Last week in Washington a Federal Court jury found Ernest Bramblett guilty. Maximum penalty on each count: $10,000 and five years...