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With his Savile Row suits and ingratiating manner, spare, handsome William John Christopher Vassall liked to move about Britain's nicer resorts, impressing elderly ladies and retired colonels as an outwardly gay blade who was really some sort of secret agent. Trouble was, nobody realized just how gay he was-or, for that matter, how secret. Last week Vassall, 38. was convicted in London's Old Bailey of passing British Admiralty secrets to the Russians for six years, rather than risk exposure as a homosexual...
...Mays grabs a handful of dirt and edges away from second. Yankee Pitcher Ralph Terry peers nervously at Batter Willie McCovey. A single means the ball game. Terry throws, McCovey swings. Crack! Second Baseman Bobby Richardson flings out his glove. Plunk. Joy, sorrow, delirium, despair-and cut to razor-blade commercial. For the 20th time in 27 tries, the New York Yankees are the world champions of baseball, richer by something like...
Barbie and her wardrobe reflect a favorite Mattel device that Elliot Handler calls "the razor and razor blade" technique. Explains Handler: "You get hooked on one and you have to buy the other. Buy the doll and then you buy the clothes. I know a lot of parents hate us for this, but it's going to be around a long time." Parents, in fact, get scant sympathy from the Handlers, whose advertising is admittedly designed to evoke the razor-razor blade urge in children. Says Elliot Handler unapologetically: "We feel it's up to the parents...
...German consul at Smyrna. Since then the tunnels leading to them have become clogged with earth and a dangerous fall of rubble has completely covered one chamber and spilled into the other. The one still accessible is built with astonishing precision out of marble blocks fitted together in razor-blade joins. Its huge ceiling blocks weigh several tons
...Death's blade lie many a flower curled...