The American Medical Association was perturbed last week by a Manhattan report that an "eminently prominent doctor" had agreed to become boss of the U. S. cosmetic industry and by shrewd publicity to persuade U. S. women that beauty culture is a necessity of health. The report developed at the confused American Beauty Congress of the Beauty Industries Manufacturers' Association. Members supply the 45,000 U. S. beauty "shoppes," which do a gross business of $750,000,000 yearly in muds, creams, lotions, dyes, polishes, tweezers, scissors, clippers, curlers, chairs, mirrors, towels, sterilizers, et al....
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