Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General William Carey Lee, unquestioned father of U.S. airborne doctrine. In the training program from the start, Lee had been the first general to jump with his troops, the first chief of the Airborne Command. General Lee trained the 101st, took it to England, whetted it to a razor edge for the Normandy invasion. Then, to the heartbreak of his officers and men, he was compelled to give up the command because of illness, and return...
...another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited by Isherwood. Larry, the dissatisfied young hero of Somerset Maugham's current best-selling novel, The Razor's Edge, whose search for faith ended in Vedanta, is said to be modeled on Isherwood...
...store friends. He chucked his vacation plans and made a deal: Reynolds would help the Mexican streamline his production, take exclusive distribution rights in exchange. While he was at it he also got another Mexican businessman to go into the mass production of a silver-plated zinc alloy safety razor to wholesale in the U.S. for 52?; apiece. Reynolds guessed that he could sell several hundred thousand of them in the razor-short...
...razor is the best tool to use for stealing paintings. It is fast, noiseless, and may also be used as a weapon if necessary. Swiftly, silently, one December evening, an adept Buenos Aires thief went to work in the Argentine National Museum of Fine Arts. He chose a small (20 by 33 in.), valuable ($40,000) painting, Berge de Lavacourt by French Impressionism's founder, Claude Monet. There was only one guard on duty in the gallery, and he was twice called to the telephone that evening...
Died. George Trumper, 70, hairdresser to the last three British Kings, proprietor of the topflight tonsorial Mayfair Shop on Curzon Street; in London. Barber Trumper, black razor case in hand, needed no special pass to enter Buckingham Palace regularly trimmed the present King's locks every ten days...