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Stocky, industrious Teacher Jacob Simonson, who will have charge of the school, has been ten years persuading the Board of Education to create it. He will stock his school with 300 picked students. For the first cellophane-wrapped graduates, he says, there will be waiting in New York City alone at least 800 jobs...
Result of an Alaskan gold prospector's spraining his ankle 28 years ago was the creation of a luxury product with an amazing consumer appeal. The prospector was Jacob Schick. Forced to lie in camp several weeks, he spent much of his time thinking up a way to make some money. Rubbing his stubby beard, he hit on the idea of a mechanical shaver. But Schick electric shavers did not appear on the market until 1931, and these first hand-made models sold at $25. Many a man began to wonder how he had got along without one. When...
...disagreement over distributing rights, Promoter Andrews developed his own dry shaver, the Packard, and began to sell it with noisy ballyhoo. A typical advertisement pictured a small child from behind & below, with a caption: "JUST AN IDEA OF HOW SMOOTH YOUR FACE FEELS AFTER USING A PACKARD LEKTRO-SHAVER." Jacob Schick sued Archie Andrews for infringement of his patent, but he lost, and the number of competitors continued to increase...
...three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading...
Married. Sylvia Sidney (née Kosow), 28, cinemactress, divorced wife of Publisher Bennett ("Beans") Cerf (Random House); and Luther Adler, 35, actor (Golden Boy), youngest son of the late Tragedian Jacob P. Adler of the Royal Family of the Yiddish theatre; in London...