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...campaign. The American Labor Party, whose 400,000 votes have been the decisive Democratic margin in New York since 1936, has announced that it will put its own candidate in the field rather than support the lukewarm Mr. Bennett. This move will split the Democratic vote like a meat cleaver through a chicken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Knockout | 8/21/1942 | See Source »

Yale Varsity entries will be Captain Bill Bird, Wil Castle, John Ashton, Charles Cleaver, Grange, Coffin, Bill Coughlin, Bill Gardner, Dave Harris, Walt Mann, and Roy Schwarizkopf...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERDOG HARRIERS TO FACE ELIS, TIGERS IN TRIANGULAR | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

Lights Out was a sound-effects man's paradise. On one occasion the audible illusion of a victim's hand being smashed on an anvil had to be achieved. Everything was tried from slapping a pork chop with a cleaver to pounding wet paper with a hammer. At last came triumph: a lemon was laid on an anvil and struck with a small sledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mouths South | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

Another time there was the problem of the exact noise of a man being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mouths South | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...keeps a sharp eye on the campus, often roars commands across the green at boisterous lower-formers. The story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Canterbury Tale | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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