Eversharp, Schick, Bard, and Patrick Frawley

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While doing some related research I ran across http://quixoticjoust.blogspot.com/2011/09/schick-and-patrick-frawley.html which I think has not been posted here before. It discusses some of the history of Schick and Eversharp from WWII on. Here is an early passage:

After the merger of Wahl into Eversharp, Bard was named chairman of Eversharp Inc. In 1947 President Truman appointed him United States deputy representative on the United Nations commission for conventional armaments two years after Truman had first been briefed that the Manhattan Project team was about four months away from completing its development of the atomic bomb.

Patrick Frawley might be a polarizing figure. You can praise him for the Schick stainless steel blades, or castigate him for the first reliable ballpoint pens.