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...beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, shattered it into pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again. In 1927 one George Latreille fell on LeNain's Réunion de Famille in the Louvre with a razor...
...Lord told the Prophet Ezekiel to ". . . take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard. . . ." (Ezekiel v, i.) But the Biblical record failed to specify 1) that Ezekiel had a beard, 2) that he complied with the Lord's command, 3) whether he stayed cleanshaven or let another beard grow. When Sculptor Lee Lawrie designed the eight figures for the base of the tower of the new $10,000,000 State Capitol at Lincoln, Neb. he gave his Ezekiel a beard. Last week Nebraska Bible students protested. A beardless...
Trophy v. Gillette. During recent years the unharmonious razor industry has become a lawyers' paradise. Last week another suit sprang up. Trophy Towers Sales Corp. has engaged in the business of selling double-edged blades in slot machines. It used to buy its blades from Trophy Blade Co., half interest in which was held by AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. When AutoStrop and Gillette merged the remaining half interest was acquired. Trophy Blade Co. dissolved. Last week Trophy Towers Sales Corp. brought a $30,000,000 damage suit against Gillette and 19 of its officers and directors. It charged that...
Died. King Camp Gillette, 77, safety razor man; of bladder trouble; in Los Angeles. Retired from active business in 1913, he returned in 1929 when intense competition set in, invented a new razor which his company immediately began producing. Probak Corp., a subsidiary of Henry Jaques Gaisman's AutoStrop Safety Razor Co., produced a blade which exactly fitted the new Gillette. A merger followed, Gillette buying out AutoStrop (TIME, Oct. 27, 1930), ostensibly leaving King Camp Gillette still "razor king.' The real victory went to shrewd Henry Jaques Gaisman...
...client publicity men. The forewoman pronounces carefully the names of new clients. Each new name is thus declaimed twice every day for a week. A girl does not clip, only pencils clients' items. The whole paper is then passed to a group of boys who slash deftly with razor-sharp knives, paste the clippings on dated slips. A second staff of girls sorts the clippings into pigeonholes for mailing...