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With a Meat Cleaver. Neighbors come and stain the good earth with their quirks and vices. The drunken O'Dowd chases his chattering wife with a meat cleaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Australian with a Hoe | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...same man had an opposite reaction on William Cleaver, who, noting the message to the class from FDR in the 1929 Album, writes "it has been a long time after all and I hope the trend of the past 20-odd years toward a centralized and socialized state has at last been halted...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: 1929: Born 'n Bred in a Briar Patch | 6/15/1954 | See Source »

...half a dozen Americans in just about every stage of neurotic obsession. Widowed Judith Anderson, the undisputed queen of this domain, is superbly in command from the very start. Like a Freudian Madame Defarge, she knits in purposeful accompaniment to the sound of her own voice falling like a cleaver on her tremble-chinned daughter (Elizabeth Ross), who peeps in terror from a vine-enclosed summerhouse across the garden. Even marriage to a Saroyanesque young man (Logan Ramsey) fails to save the daughter, for she feverishly builds a homey womb away from home in a trellised corner booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

M.I.T. freshmen: Bow, Brace; 2, Hamblet; 3, Hansen; 4, Maas; 5, Cleaver; 6, Polishuk; 7, Boedecker; stroke, Sawyer; Cox, Levine

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Varsity Heavy Crew Rows Princeton, Tech Today in Season's Last Home Boat Race | 5/2/1953 | See Source »

...Covner baby was sleeping so hard, as Roberta put it, "that you couldn't wake him up with a meat cleaver," and the girls hurried upstairs, forthwith, to steal some of Mrs. Covner's dresses for the trip. They made a heady discovery-the doctor, for reasons best known to himself, had hidden $18,000 in small bills in a box in the bedroom closet. Gasping with conspiratorial joy, the girls bundled clothes and money into a suitcase, swiped some lipstick, hustled out of the house and took a bus to the big city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Little Women | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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