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...Butcher Club. A new moneymaking trick with all the appeal of a chain letter was being tried out by many a U.S. meat market. To spur sales, nipped by high prices, retailers were selling at wholesale prices. They made their profit by charging customers a weekly fee for the privilege of wholesale buying. Butchers were making enough on the fees to pass on savings of as much as 25% to customers...
...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...
...girl. She told police that half a dozen Negroes had raped her at knifepoint. About three weeks later, 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, clubwoman and wife of a former assistant attorney general of Indiana, was murdered in her suburban home. Her throat had been ripped open with a butcher knife. Her killing is still unsolved. Next, a cab driver was beaten to death. Five Negroes, who claimed he took 15? too much from them, will be tried for the murder...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation...
...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...