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Best of all, the Democrats will be hiring their hall for almost nothing; most of the rental costs will be met by the promoters of a commercial exhibit called "American Showcase." Delegates can get free shaves at the Ronson booth, pick up free samples of Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and, from the Norex division of Schenley Industries, Amitone, a relief for acid indigestion (common at conventions...
...RONSON, biggest U.S. manufacturer of cigarette lighters (1953 sales: about $20,000,000), is going into the electric-razor market. The company has signed a $15,000,000 licensing agreement with the Max Braun Co. of Frankfurt, Germany to make a self-sharpening electric razor. The razor will first be marketed in April. Price...
...Sonnim looked on Lee as "a great man." He had few possessions, but those he had he valued highly: a Parker 51 pen, a Ronson lighter, U.S. Army pants and a North Korean cap. He did not drink, he had neither wife nor mistress. In his personal household of 20, sexual intercourse was forbidden; drunkenness, even at the "Russian dances" which Lee occasionally organized, was forgiven three times, then ended with a bullet. "Lee himself hardly spoke at all," said Koh Sang Kyun, his aide-de-camp whom the South Koreans captured early last year. "He didn...
...Columnist Larry Ronson in the Shreveport (La.) Journal...
...subjects (tuition for the course: $2,520) in an ornate, five-story Fifth Avenue building, decorated more like a Renaissance palace than a school. In the past 17 years Hartman has handed out awards to about 50 companies for "exemplifying the best in American design." Sample winners: Ford, Motorola, Ronson lighters, General Electric (for a plastic furniture covering), Kaiser-Frazer, Elgin, Parker, United Air Lines (for its Mainliner interiors), Packard, the Chicago Tribune (for "being inspirational to students of design...