Word: bladeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year U.S. Champion Dick Button had come within a blade of winning the men's world figure-skating championship at Stockholm. When the judges picked Hans Gerschweiler of Switzerland instead, Sweden's press had howled: "The best skater lost. . . ." Last week at Prague, in the European men's championship, flashy young Button beat the man who had beaten him. Losing to Gerschweiler in the school figures, Button came from behind to clinch the title by his boldness and abandon in the free skating. That made him the first and last American title-holder (next year...
...bought Cuernavaca's Hotel Chula Vista, opened a decorating shop and a furniture factory, dabbled in real estate, bought interests in banks and insurance companies. He made electric appliances and started a razor-blade factory. He brought powdered milk from Wisconsin, mixed it with water and sugar, and sold it as a milk for Mexican babies. By last year, when the black list expired, he had grown very fond of Mexico, and of his growing empire there...
Died. Craig Biddle, 68, gay blade of the mauve decade, socialite, sportsman; of a heart ailment; in Wakefield, R.I. Brother of famed Marine Jujitsu Instructor Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, uncle of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Craig Biddle was a society leader on two continents, ran two showplace mansions (Lauranto in Radnor, Pa., Nethercliffe in Newport), played Davis Cup tennis, married three times...
...Blades for Bottle Caps. The old man, the late King C. Gillette, whose mustachioed countenance is one of the company's trademarks, was once a bottle-cap salesman. While shaving one day in 1895, he tried to think of some invention as indispensable, disposable, and cheap as a bottle cap. Result: the first idea for a safety razor with a throw-away blade...
...Blades for Strawberries. Gillette's new President Spang was a real salesman, all right. Under Spang, Gillette tied up the radio rights on most big sports events, was thus able to talk ("Look Sharp! Feel Sharp! Be Sharp!") to a shaving audience. Spang dropped the company's electric shaver because it competed with the more profitable blade business, added shaving cream to the line of products, followed up advertising with hard-hitting merchandising. Gillette's net income increased from $2,941,890 in 1938 to $10,501,448 last year. This year the company's main...