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Wiesenthal's new editorial collaborators do not serve his purposes well. Instead of benefiting from Wechsberg's competent prose, this new autobiography has been translated from the German by Ewald Osers, and it is studded with Anglicisms like lorries, plimsolls, doing a bunk and getting the stick. And though the publishers exaggeratedly claim that Wiesenthal "engineered" the Eichmann capture, Wiesenthal himself says only that his effort to prevent Eichmann's wife from having Eichmann declared legally dead "was probably my most important contribution to the Eichmann case...
...BUNK JOHNSON: THE KING OF THE BLUES (American Music). For New Orleans jazz purists, this may be the most eagerly awaited reissue of the past three decades. These classic 1944 sides -- first recorded on acetate and now available on compact disc -- capture the remarkable tone and timing of the man who was Louis Armstrong's early idol and whose comeback in the '40s helped launch a traditional-jazz revival...
...skepticism with which I treated his complaints about two years ago, when he was terrified to return to his room at night. Stressed out beyond even my wildest nightmares, my friend would lie awake in the dark of his claustrophobic room, staring nervously for hours at the upper bunk...
...going to start things moving now John I feel I have waited long enough. If I keep on waiting for other people to do things for me nothing will ever be achieved. There's the bunk house lying empty; incidentally Louis and I have put a kind of breakfast bar in that rather dark corner, you know, where we used to stow all the rubbish etc. We panelled it in with some wood panel board and boxed in the wee window...It certainly gives a lot more room in the place; we had a party of divers up over...
...Granary Trust still faces financial difficulties, and is short on working volunteers. Les has a long history of providing shelter for the lost, and hopes to make Pitkierie a fully operating center for the jobless and homeless youth of Fife; he is able to offer free room in the bunk house in return for help with the project. For more information on the Trust, contact the photocopied address above, or call John Thompson...