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...trial in Manhattan went Brooklyn Lawyer A. Harry Ross and Private Detective Max D. Krone, charged with extorting $5,000 from President Samuel C. Stampleman of Gillette Safety Razor Co. Ruefully President Stampleman told of how he had been introduced to brunette Helen Conboy in 1933, had taken her to Boston for a four-day "platonic" sojourn at the Statler Hotel. Not long thereafter Detective Krone approached Mr. Stampleman, arranged for $5,000 to persuade Miss Conboy not to sue Mr. Stampleman for doping and assaulting her. "I'd have gladly paid $10,000," snapped Razorman Stampleman. "That affidavit...
...Tokyo, meanwhile, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita quietly slipped over Japan's recognition of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, figuring that last week the British certainly would not notice. In Tokyo an individual carrying dynamite, a razor-edged spear and a fistful of petitions confessed: "For three days I have been try ing to kill the Premier." Simultaneously in Japanese political circles the more or less gagged Parliament was reported so restive at the risks the Cabinet is running with its pro-German and pro-Italian pacts (TIME. Dec. 7) and its seizure of Tsingtao, that Japan...
...looks like anything but the rich man that he is. His hat is always crushed, due to his habit of carrying it under his left arm, and over his wing collar his cheeks are always bristly since he uses a barber's clippers instead of a razor...
...Angeles, Mrs. Anna Johnson, 81, who customarily shaved her crippled 91-year-old husband with a straight razor, slashed his throat, then hanged herself. In a note addressed to the police she explained : "The last 40 years he has been chasing other women...
Basic patent in question concerned the shaving mechanism in the head of the razor. The Schick Dry Shaver tapers to a thin edge of metal perforated by tiny slots. Whiskers caught in these slots are cut off by a blade shuttling back and forth beneath them. The Lektro-Shaver differs by being roundheaded, with a single horizontal slot in which whiskers are sheared off by a blade in rocking motion. Dictograph held that these differences were essential and that the Schick patent had been anticipated, anyway, by an English inventor named Appleyard in 1913. The court, however, found the evidence...