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...Gestapo's Fourth sector at Lyon after serving in the Hitler Youth and the S.S. Upon his arrival in France, Barbie assembled the tools of his trade-whips, clubs and two-by-fours-and set about earning the nickname that would follow him throughout his life-the Butcher of Lyon, Raymond Aubrac, a resistance member captured during the war, remembers that "it was not sophisticated torture, just brutal...there was nothing intellectual about his methods. He just asked the same questions over and over again...
EXPELLED. Klaus Barbie, 69, alias Klaus Altmann, the "Butcher of Lyon"; from Bolivia, to which he fled in 1951. An SS captain who was Lyon Gestapo chief from 1942 to 1944, he was sentenced to death in absentia by French courts for active complicity in killing some 11,600 French Jews and Resistance fighters. Barbie was returned to France, where he will probably be tried again, since that country abolished the death penalty...
...Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation...
Wilfred Figueroa, a butcher from the Bronx, recently spent what he called "his first and only day" as Santa overlooking Rockefeller Center, soliciting donations for the Volunteers of America. The stint was a favor for a friend who couldn't do it that day. Figueroa explains, as he sits in costume ringing a bell while early holiday shoppers walk by. Doing this is fun, though it's bit cold," he says. "But this is something people should do at least once." He notes, however, that there are some restrictions Santas have to abide by. "I tried to catch a smoke...
...Tove, 41. The Borgnines boldly contend that Tova is "the most expensive perfume to make in the world." The sale price: $55 a quarter ounce (compared with $37.50 for the same amount of Chanel No. 5). Quite a step up for the guy who made his name as a butcher in the 1955 film Marty. Come to think of it, "What perfume are you going to wear tonight, Tove?" "I dunno, Ernie. What are you going to wear tonight...