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On March 13, 2006, VILMA E. GILLETTE (nee Kozatiwitz); beloved wife of Alfred W. Gillette; devoted mother of Douglas W. Gillette; dear sister of Raymond Kozatiwitz and Joyce Blair. Services and interment private. If desired, contributions may be made to the charity of your choice.

The Division I, II and III programs competing in championship weekend at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., include a large number of players hailing from the Baltimore metropolitan area. Here is a team-by-team breakdown of players who hail from the area or who graduated from a local high school participating in this weekend's NCAA tournaments. Division I No. 1 seed Loyola: Freshman midfielder Jeff Chase (Monrovia/Boys' Latin), senior midfielder J.P. Dalton (Queenstown/St.

Eight people, including a woman who wore a giant white bunny suit and handcuffed herself to the Loews Annapolis Hotel, were arrested yesterday during a protest against the Gillette Co.'s use of animals in product testing.Gillette officials were in town for a safety and regulatory meeting, said People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which organized the protest.PETA says Gillette burns animals' skin and eyes when testing products ranging from liquid paper to shaving cream.The eight were charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Flushed with Sunday's victory and with many off work for Monday's holiday, Ravens fans have started planning their next offensive: Foxborough or bust. "The quest begins to find tickets," said Ryan Langhauser, 25, of Ellicott City, who hopes to follow the Ravens to the AFC championship game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Mass., on Sunday. Not to mention plane flights, train tickets, charter bus seats and hotel rooms. Tickets to the game at Gillette Stadium were going for as low as $181 for nosebleed seats and approaching $3,000 for those in lower sideline sections on Stubhub.com, one of the secondary markets that fans generally will be using.

Lawrence Allen Gillette yesterday insisted again that the woman he has been convicted of raping was not drunk on Aug. 27, 1992, and consented to sex with him at his Towson apartment.Mr. Gillette was testifying in Baltimore County Circuit Court in a $55 million civil lawsuit against him by the 20-year-old Harford County woman.A jury is to hear instructions from Judge J. William Hinkel and closing arguments from the attorneys today. The judge yesterday denied a motion by defense attorney Margaret A. Mead to dismiss counts of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

BOSTON -- Gillette Co. and Duracell International Inc. shareholders approved Gillette's purchase of the battery maker yesterday for about $7.82 billion in stock and debt.The transaction is set to be completed at the close of business tomorrow. Duracell shareholders will get 0.904 of a Gillette share for each Duracell share they hold.The purchase adds Bethel, Conn.-based Duracell's copper-top batteries to Boston-based Gillette's line of consumer products, which includes Braun shavers, Parker pens and Right Guard deodorant.

BOSTON -- Over the next year, Gillette Co. looks to make a lot of noise as it spends $300 million to market its new Mach3 razor to the world -- the ad campaign for the triple-bladed razor that has just kicked into high gear in the United States and Canada.But since 1995, the company has quietly spent even more money to overhaul its manufacturing facility in South Boston.When Hollywood spent $200 million on "Titanic," movie audiences paid attention. When the New England Patriots proposed a $200 million football stadium in South Boston, the neighborhood howled in protest.

NEW YORK -- It may leave men's faces silky smooth, but Gillette's new razor has hit some rough patches on Wall Street.At a glitzy unveiling last week in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, Gillette Co. announced the arrival of its new SensorExcel. The company said the high-tech razor would help them improve their already strong market share and keep a step ahead of the competition.But stock analysts have questioned the need for the new razor. Although they think Gillette's stock price and market share are headed up, many doubt that the SensorExcel will contribute much to this movement.

Procter & Gamble Co., the nation's largest consumer products company, reached a deal yesterday to acquire Gillette Co., the maker of batteries and shaving products, for about $55 billion in stock, executives close to the deal said last night. The merger, which is subject to regulatory approval, would create the world's largest consumer products conglomerate, overtaking Unilever, and combine a roster of some of the world's best-known billion-dollar brands including Procter's Tide, Crest and Pampers with Gillette's razors and blades, Right Guard and Duracell.

BOSTON -- Gillette Co. shares fell 10.8 percent yesterday after the company warned that profit would not meet analysts' forecasts this year because of declining sales of its Braun shavers, Papermate pens and Right Guard deodorant.Gillette, the world's largest maker of razors and blades, fell $5.125 to $42.1875, its biggest one-day drop since a profit warning in April. The stock had the largest decline among companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index.Gillette said late Thursday that second-quarter profit will fall 20 percent to 26 cents to 27 cents a share, even as Procter & Gamble Co., Colgate-Palmolive Co. and other rivals will see gains of 10 percent or more.

In June 1969, I dug deep for $5 and bought a Mechanic Theatre orchestra seat to see Baltimore's own Anita Gillette advise her audience to "Don't Tell Mama" in the hit musical "Caberet." It was her professional debut here. R.H. Gardner, The Baltimore Sun's critic, gushed in his morning-after review: "Every girl, on leaving home to seek a career in show business, dreams of returning in a blaze of glory. Last night, Anita Gillette did." Four decades later, Gillette is still on the stage, and TV too, as she was Thursday night on NBC's "30 Rock."

The Persian lamb coat that helped bring Sheila Dixon to political slaughter could keep other public servants from going astray. A University of Maryland lawyer bought the former mayor's fur on eBay this week and plans to use it to teach ethical do's and don'ts. "I just thought a fur coat with an evidence tag on it would be a lovely prop," said Susan Gillette, senior university counsel at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Gillette had the winning $1,700 bid for Dixon's Persian lamb jacket, which prosecutors auctioned this week along with a mink and other evidence seized in criminal cases that led to Dixon's resignation.

Longtime actress Anita Gillette lives in a New York City apartment and vows to stay there "until they price me out of this place." She also works quite a bit in Los Angeles -- you can catch her in The War at Home and CSI. Born Anita Luebben in Baltimore and raised in Baltimore County's Rossville -- where her brother Sonny lives in the family home -- she first caught the attention of local theatergoers at the Spotlighters and at the old Alamedian Light...

Suddenly on Wednesday April 18, 2007,, RUBY GILLETTE (nee Hodges) at Stella Maris. Devoted wife of the late Robert H. Wheeler and the late John P. Gillette. She is survived by a nephew, Richard Hodges of Florida and many other nieces and nephews. A Memorial Mass is to be celebrated at Stella Maris Chapel at a later date. Arrangements by Peaceful Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Center, P.A.

Archbishop Curley's Tyler Scarinzi scored a 7-5 victory over Hammond's Class 2A-1A state champion Devon Gillett in a matchup of two of Maryland's best 119-pound wrestlers during Curley's 53-17 win in a dual meet last night at Mount St. Joseph. A tournament runner-up in last year's Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association, Scarinzi led 5-0 early after switching his double-leg attempt to a lateral drop. Scarinzi's move, which he started 20 seconds before the end of the first period, nearly pinned Gillett on his back as time elapsed in the first period.

On March 13, 2006, VILMA E. GILLETTE (nee Kozatiwitz); beloved wife of Alfred W. Gillette; devoted mother of Douglas W. Gillette; dear sister of Raymond Kozatiwitz and Joyce Blair. Services and interment private. If desired, contributions may be made to the charity of your choice.

Procter & Gamble Co. has been a big part of my retirement account for quite some time. Should I continue on with it? - J.D., via the Internet One way of looking at it is that Procter & Gamble is now the proud owner of Gillette Co.'s new five-blade razor, the Fusion. But there's obviously more to it than that: P&G's recently completed $57 billion acquisition of Gillette marries a giant in detergent, beauty aids and toothpaste with a leader in razors and batteries. The resulting global consumer-products company wields awesome marketing and distribution power.

Procter & Gamble Co. has been a big part of my retirement account for quite some time. Should I continue on with it? - J.D., via the Internet One way of looking at it is that Procter & Gamble is now the proud owner of Gillette Co.'s new five-blade razor, the Fusion. But there's obviously more to it than that: P&G's recently completed $57 billion acquisition of Gillette marries a giant in detergent, beauty aids and toothpaste with a leader in razors and batteries. The resulting global consumer-products company wields awesome marketing and distribution power.