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...urge to spend is satisfied in myriad and wonderful ways. Because women have plenty of money to go to beauty parlors, sales of Gillette's Toni Home Permanents have fallen off-but Gillette gamely considers the trend good news for the economy as a whole. At Los Angeles' May Co. department stores, a $200,000 collection of primitive art from New Guinea is selling like sunglasses at $3 to $3,000 apiece. There is a boom in book and encyclopedia sales, and the cosmetics industry is lifting its face this year toward $2 billion in sales...
...best and most engaging number in his show is a violin duet in which he plays Getting to Know You with a pig-tailed hoyden named Toni Marcus. His violin is more to him than a tool for saving symphony orchestras, although in the past seven years he has earned more than $3,000,000 for various symphonies by appearing as mock-serious soloist at benefit concerts. He plays the fiddle every day at home and says it helps him when he is in a morose mood...
Massachusetts' Barbara ("Toni") Welch Gibbons Peabody, 40, got her political schooling from her father, Morris A. Gibbons, who has been a member of Bermuda's colonial parliament for 40 years. Says "Chub" Peabody's cousin, Rosemary de Suze: "Toni is a marvelous cook, she is a marvelous seamstress, a marvelous mother and a marvelous wife. She will tackle anything and do it well." Sniffs a Boston society editor: "Chub would never have made it without her." He met Toni early in 1944, when he was stationed at a submarine base in Bermuda. Toni, a green-eyed blonde...
...Karts & Fast Cars. Despite his tight control over the kingdom, Hussein is refreshingly unlike a King. With his blue-eyed British wife Toni, renamed after their marriage Muna al Hussein (Desired of Hussein), and blue-eyed, eleven-month-old Crown Prince Abdullah, he relishes domestic life in a modern, eight-room villa called Daret Alkair (House of Happiness) outside Amman. He loves speed, races his Aston Martin and Ferrari autos at 100 m.p.h., recently landed a Boeing 720 jet at Amman Airport. He Go-Karts so often with Muna that one diplomat became expert at the sport just to keep...
...Mexican border, developing at the same time a taste for old bourbon and young ladies. During World War I, he worked in the Oakland shipyards; when it was over, he married his childhood sweetheart, Hazel Church. The marriage broke up in 1952, and last year Webb married pretty, brunette Toni Ince, 41, buyer for the Bullock's-Wilshire department store in Los Angeles...