People, Mar. 22, 1971

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Women are the business of Cosmetics Tycoon Charles (Revlon) Revson, and no one doubts that he knows his business. He divides them into loners and groupies. Groupies, says Revson, "surround themselves with other women because they basically feel unattractive to men. These are the women who take that extra cocktail, who fill their afternoons with card playing because men are a very little source of pleasure and satisfaction to them, and who either neglect their appearance or do so much to their looks that they become unreal and overwhelming." A loner is usually anything but lonely. "Her aloneness is really an independence that comes from confidence. She does everything she can to attract without becoming a slave, or hysterical about the way she looks. It takes so little effort for a woman to taste and smell good. And the rewards are enormous." Gynecophile Revson gave Women's Wear Daily some examples of loners: Marlene Dietrich ("verve without flash"), Mrs. Henry Ford ("men just gravitate"), Merle Oberon ("something marvelous about her skin"), Raquel Welch ("a magnificent body —she just has to learn how to be a little more subtle in revealing it") and Mrs. Charles Revson.

Singer Andy Williams was holding the note, and holding it. "Joan, I'm turning blue," he finally gasped to the pianist. "I'm waiting for a cue," she said. "You're the cue, Joan," said Conductor Henry Mancini. "Oh, I'm really sorry, Andy," said the wife of Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy. They were taping the Andy Williams Show for March 27, and Joan Kennedy was doing her piano shtik like a real trouper. One of the piano's keys got stuck. Then she couldn't read the cue cards. But she ad-libbed her way through without a hitch.

"We could all use a little extra cash these days," said A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, putting some of his paintings up for auction at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries last week. The little extra cash they brought included record sums for the works of three artists: $100,000 for a Dali (a 168-by-144-in. picture that Hartford had commissioned called The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus), $150,000 for a Mary Cassatt (Summertime), and $95,000 for a Gustave Moreau (Salome Dancing Before Herod). Total auction haul: $556,000.

The royal yacht Britannia hove to off the Fiji island of Kadavu one day last week, and a boat put out from shore for Britain's Prince Philip and his uncle Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, both on an informal tour of the South Pacific. It turned out to be quite an unusual experience for the two naval personages when, on approaching land, they and the Fiji Prime Minister's wife got a heave-ho from 30 Fijians dressed in their best white Sunday sulus. The idea was to keep the royal feet from getting wet.