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...Whetted Knife. Thousands have often wished him dead long since. In his 50 newspaper years, acid-penned Swaffer made so many enemies that he once thought it unsafe to enter the Savoy. He often headed his column: "People Who Are Not Speaking to Me." He started out as a reporter at 16 on the Folkestone Express in his native Kent, joined Lord Northchffe's Daily Mail in 1903 and started a chit-chat column. He quickly learned that vinegar will catch more flies than honey...
...leader of the robbers, about five feet, six inches, drew a knife and demanded Ells' wallet which contained $15. The leader told his shorter companion, "Go in and got him." Then Ells got up from his desk. The boys took one look at him and fied from the building...
...same way. Making it clear to Tito that he had agreed to share Yugoslavia as a sphere of influence with the British, he asked that King Peter be reinstated: "You need not restore him forever," he told Tito. "Take him back temporarily, and then you can slip a knife into his back at a suitable moment." His agents had reported Tito's partisans flourishing red stars. "What do you need the red stars for?" he asked Tito. "You are frightening the British. The form isn't important...
...once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped off into the jungle at the head of his band of 40 Mau Maus. The Kenya government has offered ?500 reward for Kimathi's capture...
...pedestals or were swaddled in damp cloth. But for all the strange clutter, it was the studio of Britain's dean of portraitists: bearded crusty old Augustus John, still vigorous and sharp-eyed at 74. In the six months, John has picked up the sculptor's knife and found a new enthusiasm for life. It's my second breath," he says, and adds, "or my second childhood...