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Died. Gerard Barnes Lambert Jr., 35, only son of Yachtsman Gerard B. Lambert, former president of the Lambert (Listerine) Co. and onetime executive chairman of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; in an air crash; near Bryce Canyon, Utah (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Gerard Jr. was the fourth of his clan to be killed in an airplane crash (1927: cousin James T. Walker Jr.; 1929: cousin George Lea Lambert; 1939: cousin Samuel B. Lambert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...large ham; some imported canned peanuts, hamburger and chile con carne; Dolan's butter and fat ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Consumer's Index | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Many in the throng last week carried shirts nailed to poles, symbols of the descamisados or shirtless ones, as Perón affectionately calls the workers. Others waved placards depicting Perón and First Lady Eva. Peddlers hawked razor blades and other trinkets trademarked descami-sada. The peddlers knew it was good business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Holiday | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...make a purchase without some fraction of his money finding its way back, eventually, to 24 Milk Street. If he buys gasoline, whether Shell, Gulf, Standard, or Sinclair, he is contributing to Harvard dividends. Every time he buys Ivory Soap, Diamond Matches, Carnation Milk, Kodak Film, or Gillette Razor Blades, Harvard gets more money. He can hardly buy a drink without adding a trickle to a stream of dividends that totaled $6,665,149 last year. In what Claflin calls the "highly profitable distilleries," University holdings include Ruppert, Hiram Walker, Canadian Distilleries, and many others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...also had a fiancé in the U.S., Gitte procured a packing box 29 inches long by 21 inches deep. She bored some air holes in it, equipped it with inside latches, stocked it with sleeping pills, four slices of black bread, a jar of tea and some razor blades (to slash her wrists in case the worst came to the worst). Then Sigrid sent for Private Robert Siedentopf, a friendly G.I. who worked in the same Army dispensary as Gitte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: From Gitte, with Love | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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