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...slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes the last shred of hair. A cleaver drops and rends the backbone. Exactly 25 minutes is the interim between living animal and carcass ready for the cooler. Twenty-four hours elapse before it is cut into its component parts?hams, bellies (bacons), loins, shoulders, fat and trimming. The hog's destiny is complete except for the bacon...
...APES OF GOD-Wyndham Lewis- McBride ($3). Though rumored to be aimed at the Sitwells (Edith. Osbert, Sacheverellj, Wyndham Lewis' Gargantuan satire carries poisoned arrows enough to riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length...
...were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone of Gangster Marco's demise. ¶Three armed robbers entered a 5th Avenue jeweler's office, took $8,000 worth of diamonds, then, frightened, fled...
...Manhattan, two old Chinese, Eng Loy, 51, and his cousin Eng Fu-wee, 62, retired to their room. Eng Loy asked for a blanket. Eng Fu-wee refused to give him one. Eng Loy grabbed the blanket. Eng Fu-wee hit Eng Loy with a meat cleaver. Eng Loy found a meat cleaver...
...winner almost certain to be forced into a record breaking height. Oscar Sutermeister '32, because of his work last Saturday at the B. A. A. meet, is slightly favored over Colyer of Cornell. Last year there was a triple tie for first between Colyer, C. E. Dunlap '30, and Cleaver of Harvard. Dartmouth has entered Noyes, who has cleared 13 feet, and another tie is likely to ensue again this year for at least one of the positions...