My kids gave me the 'Fact or Crap' page-a-day calendar for Christmas. I thought y'all might like today's entry (a fact):
In 1903, King Gillette began making safety razor blades with William Nickerson, quickly becoming a millionaire. But his real passion was the World Corporation, a utopian community where 60 million Americans would live in one Metropolis containing millions of rooms serviced by vast common dining rooms. He picked the Niagara River as its power source and tried to get Teddy Roosevelt and then Henry Ford to be its president. Both refused. Gillette lost his fortune in the crash of '29 and died in 1932 while in the midst of a new but unsuccessful enterprices: trying to extract oil from shale.
Visionary or nut? I vote visionary, because I can't imagine shaving with a straight razor.
