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...sales. Adman Ward took a cake of greasy, gritty soap and put it in almost every grocery store in the U. S. He sent four salesmen to England at a time when virtually no one sent salesmen abroad. One of them was King C. Gillette, inventor of the safety razor. Two others are still on the company's payroll. In 1892, while Adman Ward was Sapolio advertising manager, Morgan's fitted out Captain William Andrews, a onetime piano-maker, with $50 and groceries, blessed the captain's departure from Atlantic City for Palos, Spain...
Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
...bathroom, according to Day, Loeb stripped, ordered Day to take off his clothes also, threatening him with a razor. Aware of what was intended. Day claimed he kicked Loeb in the groin, seized the razor, slashed him so terribly that the blood flew in his face. They clawed around the bathroom floor, Loeb finally crawling to the door, unlocking it, staggering naked down a corridor. His family rushed physicians from Chicago. Another convict gave a quart of blood. Once Loeb, Prisoner No. 9305, looked up at his companion in crime Leopold, Prisoner No. 9306. "I think I'm going...
...know if by chance an Italian wrote the verses and I did educate him that those precious jewels were first said by a Persian. But this did not interest him and he would not let me alone but took to talking of Mussolini. I was then time for the razor and I felt it behooved me to hold my peace...
...world which pleased him more than the comical antics in The Barber of Seville. He beamed at Tito Schipa as the love-smitten Count, at Ezio Pinza as the crafty music-master, at Louis D'Angelo as the doddering old doctor, at Richard Bonelli who flourished razor and brush with the ease of a professional. The little Italian barber had reason to be pleased that night. In the company of such experienced singers his 22-year-old daughter was making her début, not in a minor rôle, but as Rosina, the Barber's sprightly...