Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your recognition [Nov. 2] of Sister Margaret, S.N.D., president of Trinity College, Washington, B.C., and the ideals of the small college in its role of educating women, the wives and mothers of tomorrow...
...agree with Sister Margaret's feeling that more women should go on to graduate school to be fitted for a better contribution to American life. If more women would concentrate on being good wives, and contributors to good, old-fashioned American families, they would be making their best contribution to American life...
...Force. In employment, the C.E.D. found that for 30 years there has been a remarkably uniform 1.3% increase in the labor force year after year, with the only big bulge above the trend line in World War II due to the influx of the old, the young, and married women...
...undisputed genius of the flamboyant world of cosmetics is Charles Haskell Revson, president of Revlon, Inc. From Charlie Revson's hard-as-steel mind spring the soft and alluring shades-Red Caviar, Pink Lightning, Plum Beautiful-that have touched the lips of more U.S. women than those of any other maker. Last week, at 53, trim (5 ft., 8½ in., 144 lbs.), handsome Charlie Revson ran into some embarrassing new facial shades: Quiz Pink and Umbrage Blue. As sponsor of the rigged $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge-which in four years helped triple Revlon...
...Boston cigarmaker, Revson moved to New Hampshire with his family, and, after graduating from high school, went to Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to work in a relative's textile business. He picked up savvy about fashions, learned many a lesson in feminine psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels...