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The Last Empress
You could say that makeup maven Estee Lauder was the saleswoman of the twentieth century -- and she wouldn't have disagreed. By Rebecca Mead
When Estee Lauder, the last of the great cosmetics titanesses of the twentieth century, died in April, the public relations department of the company that bears her name declined, in a touching display of redundant propriety, to confirm to obituary writers her age at the time of death. Reports suggested that she might have been 95, or perhaps 97; no one seems to know for sure. If the difference between being ancient and being a couple of years less ancient might seem, to the casual observer, to ...