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Word: schick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brand humor that can make service life (and TV watching) tolerable. He was one of those rare peacetime soldiers, a guy who never figured to need any "shipping over" music; any Army recruiting sergeant could recognize him as a 30-year man. But Phil Silvers' sponsors (Reynolds Tobacco, Schick Razor) no longer agree. Lately, the Bilko episodes have become more strained, more cluttered with guest stars. With no one to pick up the tab, CBS last week gave Ernie Bilko his discharge. Next season Phil Silvers will surely be back on TV -but in civvies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Exits | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...REVLON-SCHICK MERGER is close. Schick Boss Kenneth C. Gifford quit; he and members of Schick family sold controlling block of about 242,000 shares (market value: almost $4,000,000) to Revlon. Onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...Schick's seven-man board will go four Revlon directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 1, 1958 | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...dealers and distributors went a letter canceling Fair Trade contracts on the company's prices. Said G.E.: "We have abandoned our policy because we have found it inoperable." Within three days, half a dozen other diehard Fair Traders, including Sunbeam Corp., McGraw-Edison Co. (Toastmaster), Ronson Corp., and Schick Inc., followed G.E.'s lead, dealing the hardest blow yet to the list price as a factor in U.S. retailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Break for the Consumer | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...City, Ind., handsome Roy Johnson worked his way through the University of Michigan, pushing a hot-dog cart around fraternity row every night. He graduated ('27) with a business administration degree, wrote advertising copy for three years before joining General Electric. In 1939 Johnson left G.E., went to Schick, Inc. under Cordiner. He returned to G.E. in 1944 after a two-year stint with the War Production Board, became a vice president in 1948. Today, with his wife Ellen and daughter Kristine, 11, Johnson lives in suburban Stamford, Conn., commutes to a 41st-floor office in Manhattan, spends spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: New Man, New Job | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

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