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June. In a Bronx courtroom, Mrs. Ella Taffe charged that when she complained to Joseph Scott, butcher, about a chicken he had sold her, he hit her over the head ten times with a side of beef...
They spend 15 minutes a day five times a week dramatizing the failure of the butcher to deliver the meat, the business of buying a Christmas present for the boss, the question of closed barbershops on Sunday, etc. They, plus their adopted son Russell, plus Uncle Fletcher, an absentminded, somewhat deaf, minutely anecdotal citizen, are the chief characters in the show. But the actors who play these four talk about an odd assortment of town characters who never appear...
...course you'd better watch out because they're not all like that, and that 5 foot, 4 inch brunette with the business experience may be a woman Marine, or a WAC. For the WAVE, although not Butcher, Baker, or Candlestick maker, could, right here in New England, be a cartographer, archaeologist, serologist, or a statistical epidemiologist. That might be dangerous...
Three weeks later Calhoun was kicked out of the country for a story that called Mussolini that "elderly butcher boy of Fascism" - and rather than send another correspondent, we closed the Rome Bureau. In the face of wartime censorship there was no chance in Italy for TIME'S kind of reporting...
...signal from the British Rear Admiral in command, the Italians fell in behind the British squadron. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's naval aide and representative aboard the Warspite, Commander Harold Butcher, heard a British officer say: "Pretty sight, that...