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...copies of You, an intimate, elaborate 50? guidebook to female beauty. A quarterly, because female camouflage veers with the four seasons, You will strive to tell women how to be comely-how to pick a coiffure, how to purse and paint their lips, how to apply face powder. Feature article of the first issue is "Your Bosom...
...going to march 3,000,000 members of the American Federation of Labor against an equal number of the Committee for Industrial Organization! He might be charged with disturbing the peace. Or some member of the ladies' auxiliary of the Transport Workers might hit him with a powder puff...
...spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder to blow them to hell," Dr. Lemon authored a new kind of textbook, From Galileo to Cosmic Rays. Written with insight and humor but with scientific integrity, it was illustrated with sly drawings by Artist Chichi Lasley, one of which showed a student fleeing in horror from a blackboard covered with...
Works. Victor is small potatoes beside gigantic Du Pont or Allied Chemical & Dye, but in the specialized field of H3PO4 (phosphoric acid) and its derivatives Victor is tops. Its materials are used by the nation's biggest makers of baking powder, Pharmaceuticals, dentifrices, fertilizers, matches and fireworks. Last week Mr. Kochs, though a modest man, was eager to tell the world about all this because Victor was making a public offering of stock for the first time in its 35-year career...
Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. sells under its own brand name in its famed department store some 3,000 articles including bicarbonate of soda, Epsom salts, witch hazel, face powder, lipstick, milk of magnesia, shaving cream, peroxide, cascara pills. Last week a consignment of 48 of ''Macy's Own" drugs and cosmetics, including those named, arrived not at Broadway & 34th Street but in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it soon filled a large window and several counters in the "Boston Store" of Fowler, Dick & Walker. Wilkes-Barre citizens, dripping from an all-day downpour, bought...