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Last week Pat Frawley cashed in on his penmanship. He sold his company to the Gillette Co. for $15.5 million in cash. After he pays the capital-gains tax, Pat Frawley will have $11.4 million left for his six years' work. Gillette bought the company in line with its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Mighty Pen | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

John F. (for Francis) Kennedy came out of a Gillette Safety Razor stockroom last fall to be elected Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by nearly 200,000 votes. He did not have much education (seventh grade plus some night courses) or experience (he had graduated from the WPA to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Geniuses All | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

¶J McCarthy had refused to face the Gillette-Hennings subcommittee, which investigated him in 1951-52. He would not be placed under oath or subjected to examination. Instead, he charged the committee members with "dishonesty"-in letters, said Watkins, issued "from the safety of his office."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elbow Grease | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Senatorial Unemployment. Only four previously elected Senators were defeated for reelection. Among them, the Republicans suffered one stunning blow, the sacking, after twelve years in the Senate, of Michigan's able, gentle, white-maned Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Republicans also lost Kentucky's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Old Line-Up, New Scrubs | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Iowa: Republican Thomas Ellsworth Martin, 61, scored the election's big success for the Ezra Benson farm program by upsetting Old Campaigner Guy Gillette. Lawyer Martin waged an energetic but unimaginative campaign, spouting hog-price and corn-hog-ratio quotations across the state. He will move up to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Old Line-Up, New Scrubs | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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