Word: razors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold. He died last year, left his fortune to his three brothers, Bob, Dan and Gee, an infantile paralysis cripple. Gee's share was $13,000. But he had left home years before, after a quarrel. Last Bob & Dan heard of him, he was peddling shoelaces and razor blades around Pittsburgh. Last week Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Gee Jordan's case. In Pittsburgh, a 63-year-old "newsboy" friend of 52 -year-old Gee heard the broadcast, located him, sick, in a $2-a-week furnished room. At week's end, near-toothless, gnarled Gee Jordan...
...sloth can swim milewide rivers. Plants grow on him. A heart, removed from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...
Angela Coyle Kaufman, divorced wife of the late American Razor Co. President Joseph Kaufman, who threatened to cede her "Castle" in Newport, R. I. to Negro Cultist Father Divine last July if she was not granted a liquor license (she can now get one), offered the stone mansion as a potential night spot to Manhattan Night Club Impresario Sherman Billingsley. Said cautious Impresario Billingsley, who has two going concerns in Manhattan (Stork Club, Nine O'Clock Club) and who knows the potentialities of a nightclub in stuffy Newport: "I'm considering...