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...store represented the first move outside New York and its suburbs for Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor, bossed by go-getting Dorothy Shaver. It is just the beginning of an expansion program in which Retailer Shaver hopes to "blow perfume across the nation." She is invading the territory of another smart woman operator: Beatrice Fox Auerbach, 65, who has made her G. Fox & Co. Hartford's biggest store...
Lord & Taylor's Connecticut branch, designed by Raymond Loewy, is an airy, two-story building with a huge glass panel in front and a parking lot for 1,500 cars. It is an extension of Dorothy Shaver's firm belief in peddling her wares where the customers live. President Shaver, who started as head comparison shopper 29 years ago and rose steadily to Lord & Taylor's top post in 1945, has since boosted the store's sales 62% to more than $50 million. She launched three suburban branches, kept sales of her Fifth Avenue store rising...
Dashboard Shaver. North American Phillips Co. put on the market an electric shaver (the Norelco Sportsman) that operates on three flashlight batteries, can also be plugged into an automobile cigarette lighter socket. Price...
When Jimmy Cannon was a newspaper shaver, the late Damon Runyon gave him some advice: "The best way to make a living is to be a sportswriter." Cannon followed the advice, and Runyon liked the results so well that before he died he made Cannon "the custodian of my reputation when I'm gone." At 43, as sport columnist for the New York Post, sad-eyed Jimmy Cannon has also come closer than any other sportswriter to taking Runyon's place. His favorite columnar character is Two Head Charlie, a thoughtful horse player, who talks like this...
...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell...