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...barber would unlock the door of his shop at 7 a.m. or so-early, because it was an important ceremony of his day to shave the important and self-important men of the town, whose gold-lettered mugs stood splendidly on the shelf above the mirror. Then he would hang up his straw hat and suit coat and raise his window shades. After that he would put on his barber coat, and, finally, he would step outside his shop with the key for winding up his spring-driven barber pole motor. When the twisted red, white and blue stripes began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Minnesota: Poles and Profits | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...generated by human societies. I learned a lot of things in jail too." In 1971 Marshall spent two months in Terminal Island Prison in Los Angeles and six more at Clearwater Prison camp in Washington State on a contempt of court conviction. "At Terminal Island I wouldn't shave, so they put me on death row. Prison shook a lot of my preconceptions. I met some characters in prison who were just plain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Seattle: Up from Revolution | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivies to Battle For Polo Title In Blodgett | 4/11/1980 | See Source »

...illness struck one of Harvard's key performers, David Lundberg, the week before the championships. But the most significant reason for Harvard's relatively poor showing has to be that the Crimson chose to shave down earlier in the season to whip Indiana in their highly acclaimed dual-meet battle. The psychological effect of a shave-down is rarely effective more than once in a given season, and to expect lifetime best performances in the weeks following such a shave is simply not a reasonable presumption...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Crimson Whips Princeton, Finishes in 16th Place | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

...Crimson mentor Joe Bernal stated yesterday, "We needed to shave to beat Indiana, and I have no regrets about that decision." Perhaps Bernal overestimated Harvard's ability to rebound from this first shave, but that was a gamble, perhaps well-taken. And as any confirmed blackjack player will tell you, the high-risk, well-planned strategy is the only one to take...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Crimson Whips Princeton, Finishes in 16th Place | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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