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...without tact or any conception of the dignity of his office, Clément disgraced the name of Sanson by establishing a museum of horrors in his home, where for five francs the curious public could watch the family guillotine decapitate a sheep. When he put the guillotine in hock for 3,000 francs and showed up at an execution armed with one of his ancestor's axes, he was finally deposed. Ugly rumor says he eventually became a butcher in Newark...
...Corp. Dunham, said Strandlund, put on pressure to make him sell 60,000 of his shares of Lustron stock "without compensation." Strandlund said he refused, and that soon after, RFC foreclosed and forced Lustron into bankruptcy. At the time, he neglected to emphasize, Lustron was already $37.5 million in hock to the RFC, and had little prospect of making any money to pay it back-a fact which seemed to indicate that RFC was principally derelict in not clamping down on Lustron several millions earlier...
...These gold medals," Vaughan confessed, "are hard to turn down. They have real hock value . . . In times of adversity a gold medal can be a man's best friend...
...laurel-heaped Italian movie, The Bicycle Thief (TIME, Dec. 12), tells a simple, heartbreaking story that might have come right off the streets of postwar Rome. An unemployed workman gets a job which requires a bicycle. He pawns the family bedsheets to get his out of hock, loses it to a thief, and fails in a forlorn chase to get it back. For the central role, Director Vittorio (Shoeshine) De Sica hired a real workman: gaunt, sad-eyed Lamberto Maggiorani, 39, whose performance won international praise...
...sweltering 96° as the field of eleven jogged to the post. Vulcan's Forge, the co-favorite, had taken a beating during a violent storm on his plane trip from the East; he had been thrown to the floor, and had banged his hock and thigh. When the race began, he got lost in the shuffle and was not heard from again...