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...midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Charles Revson introduced opaque nail polish and created Revlon Inc. Ever since, the cosmetics industry has been regarded as a good business even for bad times. Women, the theory went, could always be counted on to spend at least some of what little disposable income they had to look attractive and feel good about themselves...
...initial efforts have already started to attract financial support. Last summer, the school received its first endowed media-related chair, a $500,000 matching grant from CBS. Late last month, officials announced their first research grant--$225,000 from the Revson Foundation for a three-year study aimed at identifying the ways in which media affect policy-making in the federal government...
...project, sponsored by the Revson Foundation, will be run by Jonathan Moore, director of the IOP and Richard E. Neustadt '42, Littauer Professor of Public Administration. Using examples such as the Iranian hostage crisis. Three Mile Island and SALT negotiations, the study will examine foreign policy decision-making within the executive branch, the use of confidentiality by government officials and the press, and the impact of the press in shaping the public opinion...
Mark Donohue, the 1972 Indy winner, quit for a time because of an expressed feeling of dread. He got over it and died in the Austrian Grand Prix at Graz. Dashing Peter Revson gave "Miss World" a playful squeeze and asked, "Is there a better life?" His ended in the South African Grand Prix at Johannesburg...
About a third of Revlon's sales come from its health-care business: drugs to control high blood pressure, antiacne soaps, diagnostic laboratories. Revson began diversifying into this field; Bergerac has pushed much further, mostly by acquisition. The products are related, he notes, and Revlon's pretax profit margins in health care (25.5%) are even higher than in beauty products...