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Barber Machachio carries the idea further by asserting that tipping has always been the same about the Square, from 1898, when he first began working here, to the present time. Even when he shaved ex-President Eliot, he got only the customary ten or fifteen cents extra for a haircut or a shave. With the late President Lowell it was the same dime or fifteen cents for a Burnside trim or a mustache curl. It's always been like that, he said...
Four weeks ago progressive, wavy-haired Lewis C. Shave, who heads thousands of independent grocers federated in his Nation-Wide Stores Co., told Utah grocers that Georgia courts had quickly applied that State's chain-store tax to his federation, put it out of business in the area. Said he: "These laws are not in the best interest of the independent grocer...
...Every time I shave I cut my Adam's apple." This plaintive observation burst one day from Johnny Mercer, a nondescript, drawling Southerner who had been hanging onto the fringes of Broadway at the tail end of the gin & depression era. From force of habit, Johnny Mercer made a song out of it. The song made...
...years Johnny Mercer had been making songs out of bits of casual conversation. People who heard them just couldn't help singing them, they sounded so natural. Eddie Cantor, who ordered a batch of extra choruses to Every Time I Shave, never got around to singing them. But Sidewalk Poet Mercer got a job doing lyrics for the Garrick Gaieties, did another song called Out of Breath and Scared to Death of You. He married a pretty Gaieties chorus girl. One day she looked fondly at him, remarked, "You must have been a beautiful baby." Johnny Mercer reached...
...MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA--Australian troops, pushing northward through New Guinea without Japanese opposition, Shave penetrated the 6,170-foot high Owen Stanley mountain gap to the point where it drops downhill toward the Japanese base at Kokoda, front dispatches said tonight...