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...Harte's work, called the author a coward, a liar, a swindler, a thief, a snob, a sot, a born loafer and a son of a bitch. When autograph hounds enclosed return postage in their letters, it is said that Harte used the stamps to pay his overdue butcher's bill. He was an instant success at 32, and at his prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills 20 volumes, his reputation was built on two short stories and 60 lines...
...Dialectical Reason, Sartre's futile attempt at reconciliation--reflects the tension that has resulted. To this philosophical mixture is added a complicated plot and allegory on the Algerian War, which was raging when the play was written. (The name of the hero, a former Nazi officer who was the "Butcher of Smolensk" is Frantz, rhymes with France.) Almost too much goes on at one time, but the result is very exciting theatre...
...Last week the Browns took a long step toward their second straight playoff berth, as Jimmy presided over a 34-21 defeat of the third-place New York Giants. Cleveland's defense was not anything to brag about-it did not have to be. Not the way Butcher Brown was slicing up New York...
...PROPERTIES DEPARTMENT "reminded me of a shrine in the Catacombs," says Bowman. "I saw sacroiliacs, cervical vertebrae, skulls, everything." Props even supplied butcher paper for leg-shaped packages to be placed on counsel tables-keeping jurors in suspense through the trial. "Everyone knows that a trial is a drama," chortled the Colonel, "but few lawyers act on this knowledge. We follow through...
...Douglas Smith, 46, is Rhodesia's first native-born Prime Minister. His father came to the land from Scotland in 1898, settled down to make his fortune as a gold miner, cattle farmer and butcher in the town of Selukwe, 180 miles southwest of Salisbury. "My father rubbed shoulders with Cecil Rhodes," Smith says proudly. "He was one of the fairest men I have ever met, and that is the way he brought me up. He always told me that we're entitled to our half of the country and the blacks are entitled to theirs...