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...murderer is a butcher (Jean Yanne) recently returned to his home town of Tremolat in the province of Périgord after more than a decade in the army. He begins a casual flirtation with a schoolmistress (Stephane Audran), a woman of distinctly cosmopolitan charms who invites his friendship but spurns his affection. An unhappy love affair has left scars, and she is unwilling to risk another commitment...
...butcher apparently accepts with equanimity the delicate emotional balance imposed by his new friend. But then the murders begin. The victims, always women, are found stabbed to death in the surrounding countryside. The schoolmistress herself discovers one of the bodies on an outing with her class. Lying against a nearby stone is a cigarette lighter like the one which she had given the butcher. She slips it into her pocket. Later a police inspector tells her that the woman had been killed only moments before the teacher found the body. Clearly the butcher meant the woman's death...
After the great Chicago fire-100 years ago last month-the city rebuilt itself in an original and handsome style that became one of its proud distinctions. Chicago may have been Sandburg's "Hog Butcher," but there was also the Chicago school of architecture. None of the city's architects surpassed Louis Sullivan, whose buildings combined elegant ornament with a functional austerity that was to influence the imaginations of great 20th century builders like Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Long Way from Home. The glitter and glory of Washington seems light years away from the small Texas farm where Connally and seven brothers and sisters were raised. His father worked at what jobs he could get?tenant farmer, shopkeeper, butcher. The future Treasury Secretary walked barefoot to school. In 1932, his father bought a 1,000-acre farm, and by the time John was ready to go to the University of Texas, his family had the money to pay his tuition. He became class president as well as a leader in debating, acting and the speech club. During...
...years Butcher Jack Savenor of Cambridge, Mass., has counted French Chef Julia Child as one of the steadiest customers at his United Service Supermarket, which is said to offer the best cuts in New England. Whatever the quality of the meat, though, the underground paper Boston After Dark has now accused Savenor of short-weighting. A B.A.D. reporter bought a whole rib of beef, which he says Savenor weighed at 40 Ibs.; on the scales of the Boston Bureau of Weights and Measures, it came to 35 Ibs. A rib marked at 35 Ibs. weighed only 32 Ibs. on Savenor...