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...some circles in Scranton, Pa., talk of sugar in the gas tank or the stench of a stink bomb is likely to evoke gales of laughter. It also evoked interest on the part of Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigating committee, which followed its nose to the aroma and found-rotten eggs in Scranton's building-trades and teamsters unions. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Ungentle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Nervous Type. But the Scranton unions' bullyboy art was at its ugliest in two other cases, one of dynamiting and one of stink-bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Ungentle Art | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...Sense of Humor. Bradshaw's girl friend, gushing, giggling Helen Canfield, 26, a member of the Teamsters Union by virtue of her job as an egg-candler at an A. & P. warehouse, had the time of her life telling how the union enforcers stink-bombed Scranton's nonunion Sonny Boy Bakery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Ungentle Art | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...went to Dave Beck, the red-haired son of a hard-working carpet cleaner and a laundress, who entered the union's ranks by way of a job as a laundry driver, and became West Coast organizer. The jurisdictional labor wars of the 1930s were groin-kicking, skullcracking, stink-bombing affairs, and Dave Beck's West Coast goon squad was the toughest of the lot. (One of its oldtime mugs last week recalled paying a Northwest trapper $100 a quart for attar of skunk juice to use in stink bombs.) Described as a physical coward by those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dave & the Green Stuff | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...sequences involved The Actor's Studio and Stanislavski--"who made me the genius I am today. In one word he summarized to me the secret of success in dramatics: suffer." To Kaye, Stanislavski says, "Think before you stink...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Danny Kaye and Co. | 3/13/1957 | See Source »

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