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...Koven ("Wendy") Wanamaker, 22, daughter of John Rodman Wanamaker, chairman of Philadelphia's Wanamaker department store chain, herself an accomplished horsewoman; and Richard Hendriks Jr., 27, formerly the family horse trainer (now employed by New York's P. G. Johnson Stables), the son of a New Jersey butcher; some time in the last half of 1963, but just when and where everyone declines...
...inventor of a torture rack known as the "Boger swing," in which the victim-bound hand and foot and swinging from a beam-was whipped, often until he died. "We helped those too tired to go on," Boger blandly explained. The most defiant defendant was a burly ex-butcher and male nurse, Oswald Kaduk, 57, who was charged with breaking the necks of elderly prisoners by standing on a walking stick placed against their necks. Kaduk had already served nine years in an East German prison for what he contemptuously called "the Auschwitz business" when he was paroled and fled...
Beef to Impress. Butchering still accounts for 80% of Armour's sales, but the business has changed vastly since Philip Danforth Armour, with $2,000,000 earned from short selling barrels of pork in the Civil War, helped make Chicago the hog butcher for the world. Big-city slaughterhouses, geared to seasonal rushes and stretches of idleness, have been replaced by busy little "country" abattoirs closer to such cattle towns as West Point, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Meanwhile, since supermarkets buy out of Chicago and a few large centers, Armour has steadily closed down a quarter of the distributing...
...usually short, sometimes outrageous, but always understandable. The News's editorial page pulls a thumping 60% of its readers-well above the national average-by offering some of the liveliest reading fare in the country. When not venting its spleen on its favorite villain ("Killer Khrushchev," "the butcher of Hungary and Ukraine," "Red Hitler"), the News indulges its own peeves, such as the United Nations ("throw the bums out"), or directs a fervent plea to American ingenuity to solve a serious technical problem: how to keep small boys' trousers zippered all the way up. Joe Patterson is dead...
...Butcher's Son. Author Terrell tells the story of America's first tycoon in breathless prose that only hints at the character of the man but that traces his serpentine financial dealings in encyclopedic detail. Born the son of a butcher in the German village of Walldorf,* Astor took passage for America in 1783, when he was barely 19. Less than six months later, while he was serving as a baker's delivery boy, he bought his first fur pelt on the New York waterfront in exchange for some sugar buns. Aided by a loan from...