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Revlon's aggressive chairman, Charles Revson, 58, is in a diversifying mood. In the past three years, he has bought six companies in everything from ladies' sportswear (Evan-Picone) to plastic packaging (Amerline), thereby added more than $25 million a year to RevIon's sales. The $67.5 million that RevIon will pay for U.S. Vitamin (1964 sales: $21 million) may seem high, but Charlie Revson considers the price cheap enough in an age obsessed by health and about to be presented with medicare. In the trade, there is already speculation about whether he plans to rewrite...
...Portraits like this should make us all thankful that our women are still made by God and the Revson brothers, and not by painters like Rufino Tamayo...
Elizabeth Arden could have told them she was a rough customer. So could the Revson boys. But all she looked like was a fragile little old lady, so these three tough guys, dressed up in blue delivery boy's suits and wrap-around sunglasses, broke into the 26-room Park Avenue triplex of Helena Rubinstein, who may or may not be 92 (her age is a bigger secret than her formulas). "Open the safe or we'll kill you," snarled the head hood. "Go ahead," she sneered. "I've lived my life. You can kill...
Married. Charles Haskell Revson, 57, chairman and chief stockholder of RevIon, Inc., purveyor of cosmetics with those wild, wild names (Pinkissimo, Pango Peach, Mocha Pocha); and Lynn Sheresky, 32, Manhattan divorcee; he for the third time; in Windsor, Conn...
...latest, most preposterous beauty shop is a designer's powder-puffed version of what Pompeii would have looked like if Revlon had been running things before Vesuvius decided to end it all. Devised by President Charles Revson. the L. B. Mayer of the cosmetics business, the House of Revlon opened last week in the Gotham Hotel on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, "dedicated to the arts of beauty" and to the sales of the firm's products. It is also dedicated to the proposition that all women can be re-created equal...