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...just bumf and telephones." His pursuit of his ideal has left him with "a single, terrible.eye . . . black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes . . . Use them . . . spend them. It's like slowly collecting a pile of chips and then plonking them all down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: War Revisited | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Road Repairs. In Niles, Calif., when Harry Short was arrested for burglarizing a tavern, he explained why he was carrying a twelve-inch claw bar, a ten-inch screwdriver, a hack saw and six blades, and a three-cornered file: he had a wooden leg and needed all those things to keep it in walking order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1952 | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

Those who become hardened and casual lobster boilers usually do so by a firm belief that the lobster, despite its claw-waving, eye-rolling, scrabbling and thumping in the boiling vat, really doesn't feel a thing, since, after all, it is only a lobster. But last week the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals managed to suggest-without really saying so-that the lobster might screech with pain and horror at this treatment if only he were wired for sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Lobsterclde Made Easy | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

Through three turbulent decades of labor history, Big Bill Hutcheson has been as unchanging a symbol of U.S. labor as the claw-hammer and the cross-cut saw. Through old and New Deal, his faith in old grass-roots Republicanism never wavered, and his ruthless dictatorship over the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America never faltered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Big Bill Retires | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...then punch him!" From Cornishmen in the Southwest goldfields he learned fine points that had been neglected at Stanford engineering school. (To sleep warm in a wet mine, curl up in a steel wheelbarrow heated by several candles underneath.) At 23, he was helping a British mining firm claw gold out of western Australia; at 25, he had traveled around the world twice, was earning $20,000 a year as the firm's China representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iowa Boy Meets the World | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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