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Knives & Limburger. Nothing that passes through A & P's headquarters is too small for John Hartford's eye. One morning his secretary found him throwing knives at a target in his office. A truck driver had sued A & P, charging he had been injured by a knife thrown by an A & P clerk. John made his tests to see if it was possible to hit a man at the distance claimed, proved it unlikely, won his case...
...Reds. In the Pujon-Changjin area 10,000 Reds started a drive southeast along the flank of the R.O.K. 3rd Division, headed toward the east coast city of Hamhung, 60 miles north of Wonsan. The Communists were only 30 miles northwest of Hamhung, and threatened to knife in between U.N. forces advancing north of Hamhung and the U.N. base at Wonsan...
...civilian production before they are needed in defense production. They are discriminatory, ill-considered and dangerous. They are a grievous blunder . . . The Federal Reserve Board, living in a world of banker mentality and unaware of basic production problems, has . . . made a stab in the dark and the knife is in the backs of America's low-income families...
...Detroiter had a special treatment for the knife wound. Arrested for a $100 robbery, he blandly explained that he "needed more money to buy a car under the new credit control...
...Clifford Odets' last play, "The Big Knife," his hero says, "If you've got a message, call Western Union." Surprising as these words might be from the Odets pen, his latest play follows this advice; gone is the revolt against society which marked "Awake and Sing," "Waiting for lefty," and the rest; gone are the bitter characters who would shout out, "Life is written on a dollar bill." In their places we have conflict between individuals and other individuals, between an individual and himself...