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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waiting for the public hangman to come from Britain to execute them for murder. One, whom the prisoners call "Silver-top," had beaten his wife to death with a walking stick. The Quare Fellow had killed his brother and, using his skill as a butcher, drained the brother's blood into a crock. Silvertop is reprieved (and thereupon tries to hang himself in his cell), but the Quare Fellow is doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jig on the Trap | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...checking window stickers of parked cars, they passed over those with European names, overturned and burned cars bearing Moslem names. They smashed Moslem shops, tore up the seats and ripped down the screen in a Moslem cinema, burned open market stalls. One crowd of boys and girls invaded a butcher's shop, and with a meathook taken from it, hacked a Moslem to death in a nearby street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Dance of Death | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...props of this school of social realism, together with dirty dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly concerning his wife -"When you see a woman in front of her bedroom mirror, you realize what a refined sort of a butcher she is. Did you ever see some dirty old Arab, sticking his fingers into some mess of lamb fat and gristle? Well, she's just like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Jim & His Pals | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...Candy Butcher. Replacing old-style coach-car candy butchers, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is equipping New York-Washington passenger trains with stainless-steel-and-plastic vending wagons designed by the Coca-Cola Co. Manned by attendants trained to tinkle a polite bell instead of loudly hawking their wares, the carts have insulated containers for hot coffee, cold milk, fruit juice, soft drinks, also carry sandwiches, fruit, pastry, doughnuts, cakes, candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

Amidst starvation life persists. Lovers keep dates among the gravestones, old drunkards find their schnapps no matter what, the butcher's wife makes hay with Ludwig's boss, and already a man named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fatherland Remembered | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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