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...high school class of 30, but the Depression made college only a dream. It took him one year to find a job as a gas station attendant; then he switched to cutting meat in a shop closer to home for $12.50 a week. Byrd studied a butcher's manual, honing skills he had already picked up tending his family's hogs. He recalls the details: "I shot them, stabbed them, cut their throats, hung them up, cut them open, rolled out the insides, cleaned them...
...James. Occupying two rooms of a house owned by his employers, the Byrds could not even afford an ice box; they hung half an orange crate outside a window. Four years later the couple moved to Crab Orchard, W. Va., where Byrd got a better paying job, as head butcher in a supermarket...
...example, peasants are allowed only two bars of bath soap and two or three light bulbs a year. But more of these precious items, as well as scarce fresh vegetables, chicken and eggs, can readily be obtained by anyone with an obliging relative in the commune supply department. Butchers have devised a simple means to bypass rationing to benefit their relatives and favorite customers. The scheme is based on the fact that each consumer is allowed to buy 20? worth of pork without ration coupons. In exchange for a length of hard-to-get cloth or a dozen eggs, however...
Violence was ever ready to erupt in Lee. At nine, he lunged at his half brother with a butcher knife-an attack that their mother dismissed as one of Lee's "little scuffles." A New York City social worker, who interviewed Lee when he was a truant of 13, reported that he had fantasies of being powerful and killing people. Before he turned 16 he confided to a friend that he would like to kill President Eisenhower "because he was exploiting the working class." After Lee shot at and very nearly killed General Walker, Marina became convinced that...
...Vellucci "campaigning" in the neighborhoods, out of both his political interest and his own pride, is like viewing a lost art. He strolls into Angelo's Butcher Shop, slices his own meat and chops his own pigs knuckles. He visits all of the spas and coffeeshops, speaking Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and English. He courts the elderly women in the housing projects, reassuring them they always have a friend in city hall...