Word: shavers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dorothy Shaver, 61, president of New York's Lord & Taylor; of a stroke; in Hudson, N.Y. Arkansas-born Dorothy Shaver climbed up through the world of fashion by her flair for showmanship, was elected Lord & Taylor's first woman president in 1945, enlivened her store by spraying perfume at the entrance, decorating the awnings with roses...
...Mateos likes to rise at 6 and start the day with a cup of ink-black coffee and the newspapers, then shave with a Remington shaver. He dresses in double-breasted suits of conservative cut and dark color, wears monogrammed ties...
...music that he leaped out into an eccentric solo dance. For two days and nights the marchers and musicians strutted the streets, each band beating out its favorite road march in calypso tempo-Princess Charming, with its sweet, giddy, last phrase, Yankees Gone, with its sudden, catchy pause. Shaver Man, with its obsessive repeated phrase...
...Shaver, another member of the old management. This gave Barr and Clarke complete control of the company in most critical matters. This was the first blow at Wolf son. The second : the board steam roller flattened Wolfson's plea for a committee to search out a new president, smoothly named Chairman Barr to that post as well. When the meeting ended, Wolfson, shut out completely, was near inarticulate and trembling with rage. If he continues his batt'e for control of Ward's, he will have to fight a tough...
Died. Clement L. Shaver, 87, abstemious lawyer who successfully put over the nomination of fellow West Virginian John W. Davis for President at the famed 103-ballot 1924 Democratic Convention, as national chairman managed Davis' unsuccessful campaign against Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Fairmont...