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...chair of the Gillette Company, Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, a member of the Harvard Corporation, describes the Sensor as follows: "It gives the best shave I've ever had by far. And it gives it time after time. This one's for everybody...
...Talk about cutthroat competition. Boston-based Gillette, which dominates the $700 million U.S. wet-shaver market with a 65% share, sued Swedish-owned rival Wilkinson Sword last week for claiming in a TV commercial that its new Ultra Glide razor provides the "smoothest, most comfortable shave known to man." No matter that manufacturers have freely boasted for years that their products are the biggest, the best or even the most aromatic. Gillette accused Atlanta- based Wilkinson, which controls 4% of the blade market, of false advertising...
...life just fade away, and how soon one forgets that they were ever there. Yes, like Packards and Studebakers (or convertibles with rumble seats). Or getting one's daughter shoes at Best's, until she grew old enough for cashmeres from Peck & Peck . . . Or trying to recall the Burma-Shave signs that used to enliven those long trips before most people ever took airplanes. TO STEAL/ A KISS/ HE HAD THE KNACK/ BUT LACKED THE CHEEK/ TO GET ONE BACK/ BURMA-SHAVE...
...cream, an FAI spokesman admits, they all have at least 18. Which indicates that if we can't preserve all the riches of the past in this forgetful and conglomerate age, we can, with a certain determination and a certain effort, preserve at least some of them. Burma- Shave...
...sniffed for bombs and narcotics. When they retired, the hounds of the Philadelphia police department's canine unit traditionally got pensions in the form of free dog food and veterinary care. But on March 1, Police Commissioner Willie Williams eliminated the benefits of 45 wet-nosed retirees to shave $13,500 from the department's $262 million budget. "When you are looking at cutting services to the homeless," said police spokesman Captain Richard De Lise, "how can you justify feeding dogs...