Word: ripper
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...into a shop gag. They say that Reynolds, dispatched to do a story on a big manufacturer, returned to exclaim: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Home from inter viewing the President of the U.S., he cried: "A great guy! A wonderful man!" Back from interrogating a Jack the Ripper, he foamed: "A great guy! A wonderful man! Boy, how he can cut throats." On at least one occasion, Reynolds' emotional warmth has given him special insight. Unlike some of his U.S. colleagues, he did not, either publicly or privately, write England off the books when the Luftwaffe seemed...
...School is Bert ("Yank") Levy, guerrilla virtuoso, onetime Wintringham assistant, and author of Guerrilla Warfare (TIME, Mar. 16). Levy is a dramatic, 120-pound, black-haired expert on the art of unmodified murder whom the British regard as a delightful combination of Daniel Boone and Jack the Ripper. His muscular nose was flattened and given a starboard twist in either World War I, a Nicaraguan revolution, the Spanish War or in one of his many personal encounters in civilian life. Levy specialties, as taught in both Britain and the U.S.: use of incendiaries, bombs and grenades, harassing enemy communications...
...ripper's first victim had tried to fight him off, was dragged into a street air-raid shelter and disposed of there. The police got his fingerprints from the skin of her neck, also from beer bottles in the second victim's flat, also from Margaret's handbag. When they made their arrest last week, four women had perished in five days, all strangled, all mutilated...
...piloting Poetess Muriel Rukeyser, on the life and modern significance of bearded U. S. Abolitionist John Brown, coupled with verses from the Civil War folk song John Brown's Body. Scattered through the carefully etched text were some 40 meticulous illustrations by Austrian refugee Baron Rudolf Charles von Ripper (TIME, Jan. 2, 1939), who had engraved the entire book by hand...
Weedy, bucktoothed, wild-eyed Baron von Ripper, who gave Poetess Rukeyser the idea for her poem, had worked at his book with the zeal of a medieval monk. A Catholic socialist who had spent months in Nazi concentration camps, von Ripper knew persecution at first hand. He filled his book with floggings, cadaverous nudes, autopsical goons, who hacked and bled through its pages with all the angular bleakness of rigor mortis. Three of his pages had to be done over because of small typographical errors. It took him two years of patient etching and hand-printing to turn...