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Hiding High. In Salt Lake City, Detectives Stanley Butcher and E. J. Steinfeldt went hunting for two teen-age truants, found them perched on top of a church steeple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1945 | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...evening but spoils the play. Until the Senator turns so viciously on Brett, he is portrayed as an unthinking -but not at all unfeeling - reactionary. Hence, the authors suddenly seem as much out to frame him as he is out to frame Brett. Time & again, in fact, they butcher character in order to build up plot. Result: their melodrama, which could have vivified their social drama, merely vitiates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 8, 1945 | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

General Dwight Eisenhower will be heard from, at secondhand, from his old friend and aide, Navy Captain Harry C. Butcher, onetime CBS vice president. Last week the Saturday Evening Post bid $175,000, highest price of the war, for serial rights to the war diary which Harry Butcher wrote from North Africa to the Rheims surrender, photographed on microfilm, and kept in a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Golden Words from Brass Hats | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...included the name of Tojo and all his Cabinet (a few of whom might win acquittal) and assorted criminals at large: Lieut. General Masaharu Homma (the Bataan death march), Mark Lewis Streeter (U.S. civilian from Wake who wrote propaganda for Radio Tokyo), Jose Laurel (Filipino quisling), Joseph Meisinger (Gestapo "butcher of Warsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: First Haul | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Chatham, Ont., Butcher James Edmonson exhorted his colleagues: "Let's shove the tokens down [Dominion Price Boss] Donald Gordon's throat." Butchers in St. John, N.B. and Edmonton, Alta. threatened to close their shops. In Moncton, N.B., meat dealers gave away half a ton of bologna, frankfurters and chicken loaf (on which few buyers would waste ration points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: RATIONING: Gristle | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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