Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for Divorce. Lieut. Commander Giles Chester Stedman, ex-Commander of the United States Lines; by Florence Leavitt Schick Stedman, ex-widow of Razor-Inventor Colonel Jacob Schick; in Reno...
Only four doctors have been considered eminent enough to win this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...
...Vanda of CBS. CBS has invested $50,000 in a series of twelve try out shows (blanket title: Forecast) that it hopes will make hay when the summer doldrums are over. Last year, from a similar showcase, CBS sold Duffy's Tavern, now sponsored by Schick Magazine Repeating Razor Co. Besides Marlene's Scheherazade, other straw-hat sustainers this year will include Mischa Auer, Adolphe Menjou, Frank McHugh...
Railways have replaced neither worn-out rails nor worn-out rolling stock. Accidents increase. Matsumoto-san, the Japanese man-in-the-street, shaves in the morning with a dull razor (blades are scarce), rides to work on an overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of stairs to his office (electricity for elevators is no longer available), eats his noonday meal,(after showing his rice ration card) and goes home to bed without even the comfort of his much-loved steaming hot-water bath (charcoal is scarce); and wonders about glory...
Fight Camp will provide spots from time to time for real fighters like Billy Conn and Joe Louis, who appeared on the first show. Mutual hopes to induce someone like sports-loving Gillette Safety Razor Co. to sponsor the show. Of his new venture, Red Dolan says: "It may be loused up with a little corn, but I don't think every apple-knocker in the country will be able to tip the plot after one installment...