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...Washington, D.C., John Sebastian Conway, deputy Commissioner of Lighthouses, was found wandering about in a night shirt. He was taken to a hospital where a surgeon cut him open and took 13 safety razor blades out of his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fifteenth Crossing | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...only by his love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp razor over the sallow, imperial throat. The plot is not developed as it would be in an old-fashioned picture but as in Mr. Caesar's play, by succinct and fairly inoffensive dialog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...iridescent landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, madman. When he had no brushes he squirted paint from his color tubes. Insanely he attacked Gauguin with a razor, then lopped off one of his own ears, sent it in an envelope to a bordello. He died by his own hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: To the Louvre | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...firms are now joined in interests in Union United Tobacco Co. (a holding company) and Schulte-United Five-Cents-to-a-Dollar Stores. United has large stockholdings in the Pennsylvania Drug Co., Schulte in the American Druggists Syndicate; United in Life Savers Inc., Beechnut Packing Co., Gillette Safety Razor Co., U. S. Tobacco Co., Philip Morris & Co. Ltd., Schulte in B. G. Davis & Co. (cigars), Nadler Cigar Co., Huyler's of Delaware Inc. (candy, sodas, lunches), V. Vivadou Inc. (cosmetics), Park & Tilford (candies), the Schulte Real Estate Co. Action on any such merger of United and Schulte was fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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