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...hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from a razor-slash in a crap game; his third for a prison-guard whose head he has already bashed with a shovel; his fourth and fifth for an auctioneer and a planter trying, he will imagine, to thrust him back into slavery. Rather than sacrifice himself at the command of a Congo...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, onetime wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt, in Paris, following a para lytic stroke; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, in New Haven, Conn., following removal of fibroid tumor; King Camp Gillette, 77, razor tycoon, in Los Angeles...
...best." Not every pressroom foreman agrees with this proud motto of R. Hoe & Co., Inc., maker of presses since 1803. But the company's long history has been replete with startling achievements. The many presses it has sold make Hoe as synonymous for press as Gillette is for razor, Baldwin for locomotive, Colt for pistol. It was news last week when old R. Hoe & Co. bowed to the inevitable and passed into a receivership. Company officials blamed the decline in newspaper lineage, the fact that publishers are using their old presses to the limit, that "machinery is the last...
...tones like rusty razor-blades to tunes like smitten...
Advertisingmen last week had fun making up such hypothetical copy as the above. For if all companies followed the lead of Gillette Safety Razor Co., such a style might come into vogue. A Gillette advertisement, headed a "Notice to the Public," explained that recent blades have not been very good but that a new process insures their quality from now on. Seen in this bold departure was the sensational and not subtle hand of Gerard Barnes Lambert, Listerine-promoter who became Gillette's president. Attributed to him also was the recent Listerine-like "repulsion campaign" showing pouting wives leaving...