Word: schick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priesthood." And his defection would undoubtedly come as a shock to his loyally pious fans, many of whom presumably associate priestly dropouts with apostasy. Unlike many liberals, however, Lyons is following the proper rules for leaving. In his heyday, Lyons was a formidable figure in conservative Catholicism. With Schick Razor King Patrick Frawley, Lyons started Twin Circle in 1967, served as its editor and got Frawley to take over the Register in 1970. He also raised money from conservatives to buy the 77-year-old priests' monthly, Homiletic and Pastoral Review...
...buyers of G.E. hair dryers, toaster ovens and 37 other kinds of appliances will get rebates of from $2 to $5. Not to be outdone, the Proctor-Silex Corp. intends to give rebates of $3 to buyers of its self-cleaning steam irons. Beginning in the spring, buyers of Schick electric shavers, curling irons and hair dryers will also collect rebates of as yet undetermined size...
...Roman Catholic traditionalists are more widely respected, even by ideological opponents, than Journalist Dale Francis. A veteran of three decades of Catholic publishing, Francis almost singlehanded has edited the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000) as an effective voice of Catholic conservatism since Schick Millionaire Patrick J. Frawley Jr. bought the paper in 1970. So dedicated was Francis that he took no vacation during those four years...
...Dale Francis, 57, is a softspoken, teetotaling journalist who has not taken a week's vacation in the four years since he took over the National Catholic Register (circ. 90,000). Francis was chosen for the job by Schick Millionaire Patrick Frawley Jr., who bought the then-progressive paper at the urging of conservative Jesuit Gadfly Daniel Lyons to give it a more traditional tone. A onetime Methodist lay preacher who became a Catholic in 1945, Francis has socially liberal credentials as a longtime union supporter and early civil rights advocate...
Fatal Illness. The patient goes through a similar process four more times during his stay at Schick's Shadel, at the end of which he will presumably associate nausea with liquor-and have a long-term aversion to the stuff. "Aversion conditioning is not fun at all," Schick's Shadel's Director Dr. James W. Smith tells incoming patients, "but you are dealing with a fatal illness. In other fatal illnesses, such as cancer, surgery is often called for if it gives the patient the best fighting chance for survival. At the moment this is the best...