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...town of Hartland, pupils and faculty members of the Arrowhead High School paraded into an apartment for which they had paid the $55 month's rent out of student-council funds, set to work scrubbing the floors, hanging curtains, stocking the larder. Soon a grateful Hungarian butcher, his wife and five children moved in. For Otto Bauernhuber, who just a few weeks before was cutting beef to feed his fellow rebels in Budapest, the warmth of new friendship and the brightness of his new home were marvelous if bewildering realities...
Italian headline writers found a welcoming name for 54-year-old Soviet Polit-burocrat Mikhail Suslov: "The Butcher of Budapest." The butcher, accompanied by Russia's ranking woman Communist, Ekaterina Furtseva, was on his way to Rome to lay down the line to the eighth congress of the Italian Communist Party, which until the events in Hungary claimed 2,130,000 members (probable current membership: less than 1,500,000). Suslov is the least known of the top half dozen Kremlin leaders, but what is known of him is not endearing: he is a flinty, ascetic Stalinist, a specialist...
...family, it was Annibale (1560-1609), youngest of the three, who was easily the most talented. Silent, melancholy and absorbed in his work in later years, in his youth he loved to caricature his drinking companions, and in The Butcher Shop (see cut) painted a slice of Bologna life that is the hit of the current show. His crowded, Michelangelesque murals for the Palazzo Farnese in Rome set the style for baroque ceilings for the rest of the 17th century, are today ranked by such art historians as New York University's Walter Friedlaender as "second only to Michelangelo...
...della Sera: "After a century of obscurity and almost oblivion the Carracci, with a roll of drums and the sound of trumpets, have made their great comeback in Bologna." Berenson still refused to place the Carracci "among the greatest painters," but he gave a cheer for Annibale's Butcher Shop. Said he: "My attention is attracted by the realism that pervades this painting. I do not recall elsewhere movement, gestures or expressions so real or so lifelike...
...Bartell charged that they threw the boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...