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Konrad Henlein, Gauleiter of the Sudetenland, surrendered but committed suicide immediately afterward with a razor blade which he had hidden in his cigaret...
...Philippines were being pried loose. On Mindanao last week two U.S. Army divisions were pressing close to Davao. A second landing was made on Negros. Major General Innis P. Swift's I Corps, racing the rainy season that starts in mid-May, stepped up its drive over the razor-backed ridges of northern Luzon and captured Baguio, summertime capital of the islands...
...Major General William Carey Lee, unquestioned father of U.S. airborne doctrine. In the training program from the start, Lee had been the first general to jump with his troops, the first chief of the Airborne Command. General Lee trained the 101st, took it to England, whetted it to a razor edge for the Normandy invasion. Then, to the heartbreak of his officers and men, he was compelled to give up the command because of illness, and return...
...another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited by Isherwood. Larry, the dissatisfied young hero of Somerset Maugham's current best-selling novel, The Razor's Edge, whose search for faith ended in Vedanta, is said to be modeled on Isherwood...
...store friends. He chucked his vacation plans and made a deal: Reynolds would help the Mexican streamline his production, take exclusive distribution rights in exchange. While he was at it he also got another Mexican businessman to go into the mass production of a silver-plated zinc alloy safety razor to wholesale in the U.S. for 52?; apiece. Reynolds guessed that he could sell several hundred thousand of them in the razor-short...