Word: helena
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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WILL You MARRY ME?-Edifed by Helena Scheu-Riesz-Island Workshop Press...
Window dressers twisted the work of dozens of living and dead painters into ads to catch the feminine shopper's eye. Their displays were painted and draped to resemble Gauguins, Bonnards, Utrillos, Chiricos, Redons, Vlamincks. Helena Rubinstein's famed beauty salon decked itself with Picasso, Manet and Rembrandt windows, including living female models who held poses as painted portraits for 15 minutes at a stretch. Finally Bonwit Teller went everybody else one better...
...pushed her triumph too far. Forbidden to attend the Coronation, she tried to enter Westminster Abbey and was hooted by the crowd. Broken in spirit, perhaps understanding at last what a clown she had appeared for years, she failed rapidly. When news of Napoleon's death on St. Helena reached England, a satellite informed the King: "Sir, your greatest enemy is dead!" "Is she, by God?" cried Prinney, slapping his thigh...
WINIFRED GALUSHA Helena, Mont...
...Well-favored Helenans, whose civic vigor TIME salutes, misconstrued the intended meaning of "eke out." Its irony, TIME supposed, was as plain as Helena's backyard Mt. Ascension and Mt. Helena. Whether second richest U. S. city or not is something for Helena to fight out with such claimants as Winston-Salem, N. C., Pasadena, Calif., Greenwich, Conn., Dallas, Texas, Washington...