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...chiselers are not scared. They remember that even during the war, fines were low and jail terms unusual. Despite the loud war whoops from OPS last month, its big enforcement campaign has been disappointing. There are too many artful dodges. In front of an OPS inspector recently, a Chicago butcher demonstrated one by cutting up two identical carcasses. Cuts from one complied with OPS regulations; cuts from the other did not, and even the OPS man could not tell how the cheating had been done...
...them") and weather lore ("If the wind gets in Gravely Gap, it will rain"), told how the farmers call in their cows ("Coof, coof, nare, nare, nare"). They interviewed all the most prominent people in town-from Lieut. Colonel O.N.D. Sismey, the village squire, to Mr. P. Stocker, the butcher ("His scales are very accurate, as they should be"). Reported one scholar of Mr. J. Dudley, the roadman: "If Mr. Dudley is not sweeping leaves, he is sometimes cleaning drains. When I asked him if he liked cleaning drains, he answered 'Not much...
Malice Toward None. In Cleveland, when Barber Paul Pirosko sued for $5,000 damages from the man who called him a "butcher," Judge B. D. Nicola, a onetime butcher's apprentice, dismissed the case: "It takes no little skill to be a butcher...
...francs the curious public could watch the family guillotine decapitate a sheep. When he put the guillotine in hock for 3,000 francs and showed up at an execution armed with one of his ancestor's axes, he was finally deposed. Ugly rumor says he eventually became a butcher in Newark...
Last week at 73, Jules himself died quietly of a heart attack, alone in his Paris apartment. Now that another guillotine dynasty had ended, his successor would probably be either of his chief assistants, the one who is a butcher by trade or the one who is a barber...