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...shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks he has heard the rare warning of a bugle signaling that his allotted time for the kill had nearly expired. So badly did he butcher his opponents at one major fight this year that he needed police protection from the enraged crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Death of the Afternoon | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...trigger as well as the man who gave the order to fire is guilty." But he steered clear of broader questions of political or moral guilt, insisting on evidence of "concrete murder, precisely proved." Even so, there was evidence enough to sentence six men, including Wilhelm Boger, 59, the "Butcher of Auschwitz" (TIME, Jan. 17, 1964), to West Germany's maximum penalty: life imprisonment. To eleven more defendants went sentences ranging from 39 months to 14 years for complicity in the mass murders. Only three of the defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Judgment at Frankfurt | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...Carpet. For Myer Schine, who is so secretive that he does not even disclose his age (73), the sale topped an acquisitive career that began when he was 26. With savings from jobs as candy butcher and dress salesman, he bought a roller rink in Gloversville, N.Y., parlayed the profits into a chain of properties. Many real estate insiders speculated last week that the aging Schine sold out because he was hard-pressed to find successors as sharp as himself within his immediate family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: A Towering Empire | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

...went to the same butcher, and I got the best meat-but I don't think I went in once a year. I ordered by telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Telltale Hearth | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...Major." He was also England's most brilliant writer on bridge (author of twelve books, columnist for the Observer and London's Evening News), and one of the two or three best players in the world. The other man was Boris Schapiro, 53, a gregarious ex-wholesale-butcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Five-Finger Exercise | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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