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Centre of interest was the Barber, who, swathed in a large white jacket borrowed from the cook and carrying a sanguine daubed wooden razor, was none other than Edward Windsor. No newcomer to the Equator is H.R.H. He first crossed the Line in 1920, crossed again last year on his interrupted African hunting trip which he is now completing, and was once incautious enough to allow himself to be festively photographed in a blonde wig, a most effeminate dressing gown, a palpably false bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Return to Sex | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...last week's pageant he returned to his own sex. As barber he vigorously plied lather brush and wooden razor on the faces of Equator neophytes before toppling them into the canvas tank erected on the Kenilworth Castle's deck. In the midst of the ruckus little Wendy Tuke, eight-weeks-old baby, was brought to the barber's chair. Nervous passengers crowded forward, wondering whether baby Tuke was to be shaved and ducked with the others. Barber Wales contented himself with sprinkling a little soapy water on Baby Tuke's puckered face, conferring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Return to Sex | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...Peters ("Peter Arno"), famed caricaturist for The New Yorker (weekly smartchart), quarreled bitterly in the middle of the night with his wife Lois Long ("lipstick"), colyumist for The New Yorker ("tables for two"). They told the police that a deep cut in his cheek was a slip-of-the-razor, not caused by her hurling a glass powder-box at him. Calming down, they decided to separate for one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...down the street, climbed a flight of winding steps into the City Hall, gored the doorman, stamped on tables and chairs, charged into the street, gored two persons, was killed by a young man who climbed a lamp-post and fell on the bull's neck with a razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

Gillette Safety Razor Co. (Output curtailed in last quarter to prepare for new blade and razor): $13,620,700 as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 1929 Returns | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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