Word: shavers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diversify, bought Paper Mate pens in 1955 for $15 million, began to market a line of proprietary drugs (Thorexin, cough syrup and cough tablets) in 1957-and continued bringing out a stream of toilet accessories (latest: an aerosol deodorant) to boost Gillette sales. To combat the inroads of electric shavers, Gillette's technicians went to work to perfect a sharper, smoother-cutting Super Blue Blade (by chemically treating the edges of the steel). Introduced last year, the Super Blue now accounts for 45% of Gillette's blade sales in the U.S. Once a major threat to Gillette, electric...
...parodies all the others (see below). Called The Flintstones, the program uses first-rate animated cartoons in place of second-rate actors, and its approach to satire of 20th century life is by way of the Stone Age. Fred and Wilma Flintstone live in a split-level cave. His shaver is a clamshell with a bee in it. Everybody wears skins. When the neighbors collect for an evening of song, Fred picks out the tunes on the Stoneway...
...that it began in a traveling carnival which his parents worked. Orphaned as a child, he worked for his uncle's Great Parker Pony Circus, had his own pony-and-monkey act when he was in his teens. Barker, merry-go-round operator, candied-apple dipper, ice shaver for snow cones and general man-about-the-midway, he once took a job as a dogcatcher in Tampa, Fla., where he gave away hundreds of puppies to kids...
Option Play. In Indianapolis, Delta Tau Delta fraternity brothers at Butler University welcomed one Ray Lincolnholl, highly recommended football prospect, as an overnight guest, next day found Lincolnholl missing, and so were a wristwatch, ring, sweater, leather belt, shaving kit, fountain pen, electric shaver and typewriter...