BEAUTY AND THE HAIRDRESSER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200420001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 26, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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PARADE MAGAZINE
Approved For Release 199 G l#0WP75-0
JUNE 26,1966
CPYRGHT
eauty
FOIAb3b
and the Hairdresser;
BLFrances J. Lanahan
Daily Preoccupation
when all of us, catching a glimpse of,
ourselves in the mirror one hour after,
we have parted from our hairdresser,
wonder what flame of eternal opti-
mism we were pursuing while we were
CPYRGHT
an s love is o man's Me a mg
part," wrote Lord Byron in Don.
uan;, "'Tis woman's whole existence."..., ubstitute the word "hair" for "love",
d you will have a statement per-
aps even more universally true.
There is no subject women consult
each other about more, no part of i
t eir bodies which requires more con
nt attention, and no more exasper-
ting daily preoccupation, than their'.
air. If our hair doesn't look right we
f el ugly all over ... and by some in
orability of fate, on those rare days
when our ,hair does look right, and
e've whisked in and out of the hair.'.
resser in record time, we can practi
c illy be certain to meet with a driving
r in or some equivalent natural dis-
ter.
If the climate doesn't conspire
against our hair, other things threat-,
e i. We can't swim after we have our
air done, or play tennis, or do the
If ug, or kiss a man with enthusiasm
or in short, do any of the things
tat it seemed important to have our,,.
air done for. Who wants to beautify
i order to wash the dishes?
Dorothy Parker has a poem about
t e tyranny of bed:
"Up, and out, and on; and then
Ever back to bed again,'
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall'`
I'm a fool to rise at all!"
This sentiment would be equally':'
a plicable to hair, for there are times '
oasting under the dryer.
I know women whose whole view'of
he world has been colored by hair
roblems, like Mrs. Archibald Roose-
elt, whos6--liu9'baitd-directr't?r 'Ce"n-
tral",nteTri ence"-AEenc n-i~LTa-ncl:
`Fcabsolutely ove" oncion, except
~
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. i. sen.,n Gnrr-.ti ~biL N,k .a to ra+r ~4nu
.
hat.iwa~s makes mZhair
ook funnOr Mrs. Nan'ueker Mc-
voy, who-'when she was Deputy Di-
ector of the Peace Corps for Africa,.
ade the revealing statement to Sar-
ent Shriver; "I always prefer the ex- ;
Fre'ich .colonies to the British, be-:;
ause I 'can get' my hair,done there
much more easily."
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