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...still in short pants. "What old men can whittle I could whittle before I was ten," he says. "I loved my puukko so much that when I went to bed I'd put it under my pillow and pray I would some day have the sharpest knife in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knife, Bayonet, Chisel | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

During Finland's gallant, hopeless "winter war" of 1939-40, Kallio traded his knife for a bayonet, went after the Russian invaders as a private. His father, Kyösti Kallio, was President of Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Knife, Bayonet, Chisel | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...pits him against a gang of racketeers inspired by Murder, Inc. The picture opens with a lecture by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, head of the Senate's crime investigators. What follows is no social document, but a gory round of killings by ice pick, razor, butcher knife, pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Illinois. Just when Chicago was congratulating itself on an alltime record of 13 days without a single reported homicide,* police found the body of one Joseph Barren, alias "Chicken Joe," in a backyard with a knife in his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: It Takes All Kinds... | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Washington newsmen pretty well know how Pearson, a useful tool in the throat-cutting that is always going on in Washington, got the messages. They apparently came from someone in the Pentagon with the knife out for MacArthur. But in printing classified material, Pearson had pulled a journalistic boner­if the Army wanted to be tough about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Code-Breaker? | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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