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...have been so long or so profitably interested in shaving as Colonel Jacob Schick. It was he who first applied the principle of the repeating rifle to the design of safety razors, inventing in 1921 the Schick magazine razor with a plunger for discarding and inserting blades. Eight years later he perfected the power-driven shave. The Schick Dry Shaver, an electric gadget selling for $15 which mows down whiskers without cream or lather, has found its way into 500,000 U. S. homes. Fortnight ago Colonel Schick came unbloodied through the first round of the year's biggest...
...Another $25,000,000 was sold to A. T. & T.'s pension trust fund. Though some of A. T. & T.'s operating subsidiaries have taken advantage of prevailing low money rates to refund their bonds, this was the parent company's first move to shave interest charges on its own $450,000,000 debt. Another $150,000,000 refunding issue is expected before the year...
...filled with bustle but productive of no visible results. How much of his college life has been precisely like today! Wake at three minutes to nine--too late for his first class--toss till quarter to ten when up and a hasty brushing of his teeth and a poor shave with four bad nicks to staunch with stypic pencil. To breakfast at Waldorf, and two hours to kill before the twelve o'clock. A dash into Widener and check the bibliographies on Fenimore Cooper. A dash to H.A.A.--tickets for Dartmouth game. Back to his Attic and his best suit...
Meantime in Topeka, Alf Landon had been up at 5 a. m. Not stopping to shave, he put on a white linen suit with unaccustomed vest, swallowed his breakfast, hurried downtown to meet his agricultural experts. First hitch in his plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most...
...Sunday he woke to a cold drizzle, decided to stay put for the day. Late that afternoon, looking healthier than he had since he arrived from his West Indies cruise last spring, the President was ferried over to the Potomac for a bath, a rubdown and his first shave since leaving Pulpit Harbor five days before...