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...Whipple, sensational Princeton bluebeard, won the trophy "that established shaving as an intercollegiate sport" when he needed only four razor swipes and a stroke penalty for cuts to go the full route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Entry Runnerup in Intercollege Shaving Meet | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

First big Rexist clash with the Government came last October when 5,000 Rexists held a mass demonstration in the streets of Brussels, fought Premier van Zeeland's cavalry with sticks and razor blades (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Premier v. Rex | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

When the leatherized skin tore, as occasionally happens, Dr. Bettman resorted to isografts. These are razor thin strips of skin (taken from a donor whose blood matches the patient's) laid over the raw surfaces. Such isografts soon disintegrate but temporarily they act as a natural dressing and, when supplemented by a preparation called "oxyquinoline sulphate scarlet r" which Dr. Bettman devised, they reduced infection and temperature, and enabled the children to gain strength. After nine days of this Dr. Bettman took auto-grafts from healthy areas of the patients' own thighs, and after three months' hospitalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Isografts | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...first trip to the tropics, to Martinique, but it was a disappointment. Then Vincent van Gogh, a lone wolf like himself, invited him to come and work with him at Aries. Their queer partnership broke up when van Gogh went crazy and cut off his ear with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting as he did: "My business is art, it is my capital, it is the future of my children, it is the honour of the name I have given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Bad Wolf | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Monday morning I stopped in the Square and bought that electric razor I had been admiring. I like it very much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

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