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Gillette designed a single-blade razor similar to Bic's but soon abandoned the concept in favor of a razor that was essentially a Trac II cartridge molded into a blue plastic handle. Gillette introduced this disposable as the Good News in 1976, about a year before Bic's razor reached the United States, and managed to establish market leadership ...
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Ziegler joined Gillette Company in 1946 and became its head in 1966. [2] His tenure saw Gillette's revenues rise from $340 million to over $1 billion by 1973, marking the company's most successful financial period. [1] Under Ziegler's leadership, Gillette introduced the Trac II razor and the Cricket Lighter. [1]
Traces of Death is a 1993 American mondo film that consists of various scenes of stock footage depicting death and real scenes of violence.. Unlike the earlier Faces of Death which usually included fake deaths and reenactments, Traces consists mostly of actual footage depicting death and injury, and consists also of public domain footage from other films.
Susan Patterson (born October 11, 1955, in Sun Valley, Idaho) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer who competed in the 1976 Winter Olympics.She was fourteenth in the downhill, younger brother Pete (b.1957) was also on the U.S. Olympic team and was thirteenth in the men's downhill.
The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports is an American radio-turned-television program by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) that ran from 1942 to 1960. [1] The program included broadcasts of a variety of sports , although it is primarily remembered for its focus on boxing matches.
Gillette was born in Wickes, Jefferson County, Montana Territory to Franklin Gillette and Louisa Maria Rice, who married on October 21, 1883, two months after their son's birth. [1] His parents were financially comfortable, but deeply religious, and eventually renounced material wealth to join The Salvation Army .
Gillette died aged 90 on August 19, 2013, predeceased the year before by his wife of 70 years, Doris (née Porter), and survived by his sons Guy and Pipp. He saw an advance copy of the book, A Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette, [17] published through the University of Oklahoma Press, but died before its publication ...