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...relax one night last week after TIME published (in its Canadian edition) his story of a reign of terror in Montreal's tenderloin district, but a couple of people frowned. What bothered Riggan was that the frowning men were standing in his doorway, one of them holding a knife. Angered by the story, the two hoodlums began to beat Riggan, then fled leaving the reporter, only mildly injured, with the always welcome certainty that his reporting had an audience. See PRESS, Reader Response...
...newsstands only the day before. Riggan's doorbell rang, and when he opened the door, two rough-looking strangers pushed their way in. "Did you do that article on the East End?" one asked. When Riggan replied that he had, one of the men whipped out a knife and held it to the newsman's stomach while the other smashed Riggan in the face with his fist. "If you work for TIME," the man muttered between punches, "you've got plenty of money. Where is it?" Riggan broke loose, made a dash for the door and shouted...
Breach After Long Silence. In Cincinnati, Le Cameron Trent won a divorce after he testified that his wife "threw chinaware at me, tried to stick me with scissors, took a butcher knife and tried to cut my throat, and wouldn't talk...
...reputation for extravagant whims, and after the Revolution, aristocratic ladies carried on with the macabre fancy of dressing 'àa la victime,' their hair shorn off as in preparation for the guillotine and their necks bound by a thin red ribbon to simulate the cut of the knife. Trade thrived, and soon Louis' chief minister was declaring: "French fashions are to France what the mines of Peru are to Spain...
...buttresses made of mud that speared high above the slanted roof. Weese tucked it away for future reference. Then he went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using it), but. 2) heartwood mahogany, placed well up from the ground, had resisted the white ants 60 years and more. He also checked his belief that, treated with modern preservatives, mahogany would last indefinitely...