Word: razors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their goal is Carnicero, the highest mountain in the Americas that no one has over climbed. Its razor-sharp, windswept ice ridges have forced back the three climbing parties that tried to scale...
...event (including the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who are stuck with a medal struck for Hopalong), Colonel Leonard turned the matter over to an attorney. He gave an even more ominous indication of the public temper: "You know what my kids did last night? They took an old safety razor and cut their Hopalong Cassidy clothes to bits...
...Company He Keeps. In Nashville, Judge Charles Gilbert advised a recurrent defendant, again brought into court after a razor brawl, to avoid trouble by staying out of bad company, was told: "I'd like to, judge, but I haven't got enough money to get a divorce...
...sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
When it bought the Toni home permanent wave slightly more than two years ago, Gillette Safety Razor Co. paid plenty for its new investment. The total: $20 million to Toni's Yale-bred, back-slapping Owner Richard Neison Wishbone Harris (TIME, Jan. 19, 1948), of which $12 million was cash. (The rest was to be paid out of Toni profits.) But the deal certainly gave Gillette's profits a well-barbered look. Last week Gillette President J. P. (for Joseph Peter) Spang Jr. announced that in 26 months Gillette had earned $8 million after taxes on Toni. With...