Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final decision to hire Brynner and start again from scratch was plagued with difficulties. Stockier than Ty and almost 3 in. shorter, Yul would need all his costumes made over. He was already growing a beard so the last scenes would have to be shot first, then a shave and a run through the early days when the King of Israel was a beardless youth...
...Third District's Robert D. Harrison is in any difficulty. In 1956 Harrison beat Democrat Lawrence Brock by less than 300 votes, and Brock is running again. But this time Harrison himself is campaigning harder and has increased backing from a powerful state organization alerted by his close shave...
Died. J. P. McEvoy, 63, writer, world-roving editor for Reader's Digest; of a stroke; in New City, N.Y. Stocky, jaunty Joseph Patrick McEvoy wrote everything from Burma-Shave signs to Broadway shows (Allez-Oop, Stars in Your Eyes), from novels (Show Girl) to the story line of the comic strip Dixie Dugan. A Chicago newsman, he became poet laureate of the P. F. Volland greeting card company, where he composed hundreds of merchantable verses. He went on to write short stories, radio and TV scripts, and scenarios for Hollywood, where he said he picked up "one stomach...
...Look at him, the white liberator of Africa," cracked an aide as Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroo-mah) poked his lathered dusky face out of a Blair House bathroom. Laughing lustily, the irrepressible Prime Minister of Ghana (pop. 4,800,000) finished his shave, draped on one of his $300 tribal robes of kente cloth, plunged into three days of red-carpet treatment in Washington. Fresh from a dignified state visit in Canada, he carefully controlled the spellbinding flamboyance that made him the "show boy" hero of the Dark Continent, but his warm humor hid just under the surface...
...often get from the best British actors and have usually got from Mason himself in his many movies from Seventh Veil through Julius Caesar to Cry Terror. He doesn't falter vocally for a moment, even when at the same time he has to give himself a complete shave with a straight razor or don a shirt with separate collar and French cuffs...