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• Abe Plough Failed to Carry out His Promise to Tom Lyle Williams and His...

  

  According to a letter from Tom Lyle Williams Jr's., to all Maybelline employees, dated October 6,1967: "We hardly need to say that one of the paramount... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Abe Plough, Owner of the Largest Pharmaceutical Company, Plough Inc. in the Worl...

  

  Abe Plough built a business empire, (Plough Inc.) which included drugs, cosmetics, (Maybelline) and St. Joseph’s Aspirin. His company merged with Schering in... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Original Newspaper Articles and Letters Depicting the Merger Between Maybelline...

  

  Harris A. Neil Jr. yearbook picture 1952, Michigan State This week I will be posting the original newspaper articles and letters explaining the Merger between... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Memorial Tributes to Our Maybelline Family Veterans, Along with Special...

  

  Memorial Day Memories from Maybelline Family Veterans. Veteran from the Great War, WW 1, Preston Williams. UPCOMING EVENTS.... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Tom Lyle Williams Letter to Rags Ragland Stating Regrets Over Selling the...

  

  Alan A. Ragland and Sharrie Willilams Excerpted from a letter from Alan A. Ragland, (Rags Ragland's son.) Alan also wrote the preface for The Maybelline Story... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• The Maybelline Company Operated “beneath the Radar” Before the Merger, Keeping...

  

  9. END NOTES AND FILE MATERIALS By Harris A. Neil Jr. This closing section contains miscellaneous materials from my files that relate to the previous... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Tom Lyle Williams Donates the Maybelline Building and 100 Million Dollars to...

  

  8. LINGERING TOUCHES By Harris A. Neil Jr. And that’s how things stood as the family and I moved to Colorado. It could have been the end of the story, but the... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Despite the Magnitude of Tom Lyle Williams Generosity, the Gift Got Absolutely N...

  

  7. THE GIFT By Harris A. Neil Tom Lyle Williams at his home in Bel Air California, May, 1968 click to enlarge On a Saturday in late May, 1968 all eligible... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Maybelline - Plough Merger in 1967 Starts off as a Nightmare!!!

  

  Harris A. Neil Jr. with his friend DeAnne 6. THE PLOUGH MERGER By Harris A. Neil Jr. The morning of Saturday, October 7, 1967 began normally enough at our house. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Known as "the Wonder Company" in the Industry, the Maybelline Company Ran Like...

  

  Harris A. Neil Jr with Harris A. Neil lll 5. PEOPLE, CULTURE AND STYLE...by Harris A. Neil Jr. Nothing in my work experience, before or since, came close to... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Maybelline's Tremendous Growth, with Little Production Space, Forced Tom Lyle...

  

  4. GAME ON! By Harris A. Neil Jr. Harris A Neil Jr with his son Harris Neil Jr . lll Thus, the Maybelline environment, both internal and external, became the... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• A Sprawling, Nationwide Network of Suppliers and Private-label Companies Made...

  

  3. THE INVISIBLE MAYBELLINE COMPANY - By Harris A. Neil Jr. Anyone who visited the facility we looked at in the previous section would question how a dominant... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• 50 Years of Maybelline-Magic Took Place in a Simple Nondescript Building in...

  

  2. THE VISIBLE MAYBELLINE COMPANY By Harris A. Niel Jr. The beige brick building that housed the Maybelline Company in the 1960s was handsome, but nothing... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Former Maybelline Executive, Harris A. Neil Jr., Shares the Nuts and Bolts of...

  

  My name is Harris A. Neil Jr. I worked at Maybelline in Chicago from January, 1959 to August, 1968, a period of great growth and excitement in the history of th... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Mad Men's Don Draper Continues to Represent Maybelline in 1966 and 68 and Roger...

  

  I just happened to catch this scene on Mad Men a few weeks ago and was surprised to see this 1960's Maybelline ad still up on the active client bulletin board.... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Former Maybelline Executive, Harris A. Neil Jr., Tells His Story in a 10 Part...

  

  My Guest Blogger Harris A Neil Jr. gives the historical nuts and bolts of packaging, production and distribution within the Maybelline Company,between 1959 and... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• PURE NOSTALGIA...The Original Maybelline Building in Chicago, Then and Now......

  

  Maybelline Building in 1934 withe it's executives, family and employees. Don't you love the Maybelline truck? Executive Secretary, Dorothy Moulander standing... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Celebrating Cinco De Mayo 2013 and Old Hollywood with Emery Shaver's Nephews.

  

  Tom Lyle Williams and Emery Shaver, standing in front of TL's 1934 Packard Victoria, parked in front of the Villa Valentino. Celebrating Cinco de Mayo and... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Old Hollywood Glamour 1940 Style - Tuxedos, False Eyelashes, Daiquiris and...

  

  Excerpt from a diary written by Jane Allen, while visiting the Villa Valentino, with Tom Lyle Williams niece, Annette Williams, in June, 1940. Picture left to... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE

• Inside View of Life at the Villa Valentino During World War Ll - Exclusive Famil...

  

  Tom Lyle Williams with his nephew Bill Williams by the pool at the Villa Valentino Bad-mitten Court at the Villa Valentino Lush gardens surrounding the Pool at... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 CULTURE, HAIR & BEAUTY, LIFESTYLE