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...test a machete, a Colombian campesino sticks the point into a wooden floor and bends the bladedouble. If the heavy knife springs back upright, the countryman is satisfied that it is good. If it has a bone handle and nickel-plate finish besides, the customer cannot get his money out fast enough...
Last week busy salesmen, speaking a guttural Spanish, were showing just such a machete to Colombian hardware dealers. It was the German Mosquito-brand machete, and its agents said that they could deliver it for $2 a dozen less than any U.S. knife. A standard Collins machete, made in Collinsville, Conn., costs $14 a dozen, and does not always offer the prized (though nonessential) nickel finish...
...runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes advances toward her in an automat one day, she goes right on eating her raisin bun, looks him square in the eye and asks: "Are you a pervert...
Fatty threatened gently for two hours. Mme. de Vasselot remained adamant. Then the petit gros forgot his manners. Whipping out a pocket knife, he vowed he would cut Madame's ears off then & there if she did not relent. Mme. de Vasselot opened the safe...
...bidder for self-improvement this year is Finland. Long worried about their manners, particularly the knife-brandishing belligerence of Finnish drunks, the Finns last month stepped up their courtesy campaign. Run by the serious "Citizens' Good Behavior Organization," the drive is aimed at making "the common Finn a gentleman" in time for the Olympic Games in 1952. In addition, Finland has decided on an anti-gluttony campaign. Insurance company surveys show that during the food-short war years, the people were healthier than before. But Finns have not taken the hint. Said Tailor Eirik Dronstedt, who has been busy...