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Hand to the plow, which won the first prize, boasts a very clear, almost slick style. This macabre story of a subtle murder, emblemished with crisp dialogue and painstaking detail, seems like a strange marriage of Edgar Allen Poe and Hamlin Garlin. Miss Leonard has constructed her slice of horror carefully and correctly, slipping the stilleto in exactly the right place at the right time. Although this is a cool, professional job, it does not have the strength of personal involvement that the Stewart story...
...Bigger Slice. In the depths of the Depression, when other businesses were going to pot, Keating streamlined his spatulas, basting spoons, kitchen strainers, etc. into atched sets with nine color combinations. Result: sales tripled. To boost his sales of knives, he put out sets of six or more in safe and handsome "holdsters"; his cut of the knife market doubled in six months. Keating claims he was first on the market with the gear-type can opener; now he has made his original model obsolete by a new one that opens bottles, punctures beer cans and removes vacuum caps...
Join with non-Communists in a coalition and then proceed, by various methods, to take over." What methods? "Salami tactics," says Rakosi-"demanding a little more each day, like cutting up a salami, thin slice after thin slice...
Amos Dudley grew up in the Mississippi hill country with two preoccupations, money and righteousness. He fooled himself into believing they were pretty much the same thing. Amos grabbed a slice of Delta wilderness, and, by relentlessly sweating his Negroes and himself, cleared the land, planted cotton and grew rich...
Still to be determined, after hearings, is the amount to be given each claimant. The biggest single slice of the settlement, $716,666, will be split among some 90 lawyers who prepared the suits...