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Helpmeet. In Springfield, Mass., Ralph Baughn's sentence for hacking at his wife with a carving knife was suspended when she explained to the judge: "He was only playing around like husbands...
...Hello. In Bristol, England, Butcher William Eddy, arrested for brandishing a meat saw and a carving knife on High Street, declared that he was just waving to a friend...
...hole in the head is one of the oldest operations in medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...
...Received the European Recovery Program bill from the Foreign Relations Committee. The bill bore a strange financing device. Colorado's Eugene Millikin, who will later handle the Republican knife on taxes, devised a method to give ERP all of the $5.3 billion needed for its first year of operation and also have several billions left over for tax slicing. It was a neat bookkeeping trick: $3 billion of ERP's cost will be charged against 1948's books, to be met out of the estimated $7.5 billion 1948 surplus, leaving only $2.3 billion to be charged against...
Chances are you'll never glimpse a boiled shirt on local ski slopes, but 3-minute sweatpants, dunked in a pot of wax and knife-edged beneath a mattress, may double as ski pants for the well-dressed fan of the near future...