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Clamoring to get into the Trump affray were such professional tattletales and partygoers as Aileen Mehle, veteran writer of the Post's "Suzy" column, syndicated to more than 100 newspapers, plus Smith's Daily News colleague William Norwich, New York Newsday's James Revson and a phalanx of others from all over. Even London dailies were grabbing at the story, pursuing the angle of Ivana's brief first marriage to an Austrian ski pal. We're not talking just the wacky supermarket scandal sheets, whose more enticing headlines last week included JAMES DEAN IS ALIVE!, CHEERS STAR'S FATHER...
...time he earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in 1972, Tobias had published the first of his seven books. Among them: Fire and Ice, a biography of Revlon co-founder Charles Revson; The Invisible Bankers, a critique of the insurance industry; and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, all big sellers. A prolific contributor to New York, Esquire and other magazines, Tobias has also written a computer program, Managing Your Money, which since 1984 has sold more than 250,000 copies...
...conferences, funded by a $240,000 grant from the Charles H. Revson foundation, are being organized by Radcliffe President Matina Horner and psychologist Virginia O'Leary, a former officer at the American Psychological foundation and a visiting scholar at Radcliffe. The goal of the conference, according to Horner, is to "get the very best people together...to think in new ways about a whole range of issues...
Planning for the events began this June after the Revson Foundation donated $250,000 to Radcliffe, the foundation's largest gift ever, Lee said. She said the Revson grant will provide almost all of the funding for the conferences, which will continue into October...
...cosmetics empire, started by Charles Revson in 1932, has been showing signs of old age during the 1980s. Profits fell from $192 million in 1980 to $112 million last year. But in spite of pale cosmetic revenues, the company has become a takeover candidate because of its booming health-care business. More than half of Revlon's sales now come from such unglamorous products as Tums antacids and Orafix dental adhesive...