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While the safety razor and the electric shaver have thoroughly conquered the U.S., many Europeans still strop their own razors or visit a barber for a shave. This naturally makes Europe highly attractive to the world's razor-blade makers. Throat-cutting competition for the market is raging between Boston-based Gillette Co., world's biggest producer, and Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd., whose introduction of the long-lasting stainless-steel blade changed the whole nature of the market (TIME, May 1). Stainless blades now account for almost 70% of British blade sales, 35% of the German...
...Gillette is also testing a cartridge razor in which the shaving surface is a continuous reel in place of individual blades; the shaver turns a knob to advance the reel when an edge becomes dull...
...major showcase of American fashion, dangles its price tags on either side of the counter. It is one of the few places where a bright woman with ideas, who is content to wear a costume ring instead of a wedding band, can rise to rule the executive suite. Dorothy Shaver, president of Lord & Taylor until her death at 61 in 1959, was the archetype of the breed. At elegant Henri Bendel, Geraldine Stutz became president at 33, has successfully given her store an aura of yé-yé. Last week able, low-keyed Mildred Custin, 58, took over...
Nondimensional Space. That was precisely the idea when Greeley set about building schools that look like wheels and circus tents. With help from Colorado State College planners and experts at the Ford Foundation's venturesome Educational Facilities Laboratory, Architect John Shaver designed buildings "that stay out of the way of teachers and students...
...Shaver, who is also busily at work on other new schools in nine states, says, "We want to make space nondimensional." In the process, he has given Greeley a new dimension...