Word: butcher
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Raymond I. (for Ingram) Smith is a 66-year-old ex-Vermonter, ditchdigger and news butcher who got his start in business running a carnival wheel of fortune and is now a leading citizen of Nevada. Every year Smith hands out $90,000 or more in scholarships to deserving high-school seniors, another $100.000 or so to such organizations as the Boy Scouts and Community Chest. The Reno Day Home, a nursery run by Catholic sisters, is a Smith philanthropy; the local Methodist Church paid off its mortgage with $5,000 from Smith; Mormons and members of the Church...
Stars and Stripes reporter John J. Sack '51, former CRIMSON editor and best-selling author of "The Butcher," was arrested by military police yesterday for smuggling himself aboard a Chinese prisoner ship in defiance of a strict press...
...June 1952, Rinehart published his book, "The Butcher," an account of the first ascent of Peru's Mt. Yerupaja by a group of Stanford and Harvard students. The book, called "one of the great real-life dramas of mountain-climbing literature," was favorably reviewed everywhere...
...some odd reason, they put me in the tank corps; they never could teach me how to drive, I never could drive anything. So they said I was a menace and classified me as unteachable. Then in the Quartermaster Corps I was a butcher, assigned to a ration-breakdown. Enormous dead cows were tossed on the floor and I had to hack them up." Before he left the service, however, he managed to learn Bulgarian...
Perchance to Dream ... In Houston, Merrick Gillory, suing for divorce, charged that he couldn't sleep at night because his wife slept with a butcher knife under her pillow...