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...looking for the weapon used 10 hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Electronic Lure | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Butcher of the Year would have been more appropriate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...agree that Mitchell's program was the best possible cure. Faced with the fact that labor has lost a lot of friends, he could see, too, that the temper of Congress was even hotter than Mitchell's. Rather than face possible mass surgery from a congressional butcher knife-perhaps even an outcry in Congress for a federal right-to-work law-George Meany was prepared, however reluctantly, to take Physician Mitchell's prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strong Medicine | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...know, professor, you're all right," Russell observed. "You should run for mayor. I know a butcher back in Cleveland who runs every year just to see how many friends he has. Why don't you run?" The political scientist declined...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The Compleat Politician | 11/23/1957 | See Source »

...Callaghan, a former railroad man in India, said he was her father, told delighted newsmen: "That's our daughter, and both me and the missus were born in London." He said Johanna had moved to Cardiff with them when she was 13, got a job in a butcher's shop, later was shipped to Hollywood by a talent scout. (MGM, which likes Johanna-Anna in her off-shoulder sari, first hedged, then admitted her identity.) Said Papa O'Callaghan huffily: "She never mentioned Mr. Brando in her letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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