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...foggy morning last week, three law-enforcement officers walked up to a strapping woodcutter bending over a power saw deep in the dark North German forest of Sachsenwald. "Hands up!" shouted an officer, and the surprised lumberjack allowed himself to be handcuffed without resistance. Thus the law finally caught up with former SS Sturmbannführer Richard Baer, 49, last commandant of Hitler's infamous Auschwitz extermination camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Commandant of Auschwitz | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

press the bricks (lumberjack language)-to loaf

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: FROM ABE'S CABE TO ZOOLY A Slang Sampler | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

Timbering Up. In Houghton, Mich., Iris Ann Johnson explained that she had killed her lumberjack husband during a "game we played when we were drinking. He would run around the yard while I shot at him with a .22-caliber rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Timbering Up. In Houghton, Mich., Iris Ann Johnson explained that she had killed her lumberjack husband during a "game we played when we were drinking. He would run around the yard while I shot at him with a .22-cal. rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...first venture was a package of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, written back in the '30s when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony's Kid Don't Cry was a peek into the frustration of a onetime lumberjack hooked by big-city humdrum, was acted by Ben Gazzara with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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