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Died. Claude Moore Fuess, 78, longtime (1933-48) headmaster of Andover, the country's premier prep school, able biographer of Americans from Daniel Webster to Caleb Cushing, a razor-witted English teacher who broadened the curriculum (less Latin, more history) but preferred teaching, which he regarded as "an art, not a science"; of a heart ailment; in Brookline, Mass...
Buck teeth, a flat nose, eyes like two razor slits, mousy ears and a fuzzy, black Jerry Lewis haircut. That is Japan's 28-year-old Yujiro Ishihara, the adored symbol of Japanese youth, and easily the most popular movie star in the nation that produces more movies than any other country in the world...
...biggest of them all was really only waiting until it was ready. Last week Boston's Gillette Co., the world's largest maker of razor blades (7 billion last year), announced that it too will market a stainless steel blade. The new blades will be distributed first in New York and Philadelphia and then to the rest of Gillette's 3,500 distributors and 500,000 retail outlets. Gillette thus becomes the third major U.S. company to go stainless, and its entry into the field signals the start of what is certain to be a bitter competition...
...success of Britain's venerable Wilkinson Sword Ltd., which has been unable to meet demand ever since it began selling its Super Sword-Edge stainless blades in the U.S. 18 months ago. But demand for the stainless blades lured Gillette competitors Schick (Krona Plus) and American Safety Razor (Personna and PAL) into the field-and Gillette was forced to go along...
...company spent months experimenting before it was convinced that it could mass-produce stainless steel blades of uniform quality; the chrome carbide particles in stainless steel make it more difficult to sharpen than the carbon steel that is used in most razor blades. Gillette will produce its stainless blades in a new $10 million addition to its Boston plant, which is capable of producing more stainless blades in a week than the 7,000,000 exported to the U.S. by Wilkinson last year...