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...kids in the Ohio River town of Cresap's Landing sing that song except John and Pearl Harper. And they have reason: their bank-robbing father is in Moundsville Prison waiting to be hanged. Before The Night of the Hunter has gone many pages, Ben Harper lives out the doggerel and swings for his crimes. The secret and, eventually, the terror around which Author Grubb's skin-prickling first novel unfolds is: What did Ben Harper do with the $10,000 in crisp, green 100s that he killed two bank clerks...
...seems safe enough until the Preacher comes to Cresap's Landing. In no time he woos and wins the widow Harper. John shows an animal distrust for this strange new father with the letters L-O-V-E tattooed on the fingers of his right hand and H-A-T-E on the left. Once the war of nerves is joined, Author Grubb piles horror on tension, chapter by chapter, till the Preacher meets an end as vicious as himself...
...streamline his management. It was too cumbersome; six different divisions might have to work on cost estimates before Westinghouse could bid for an order, taking so many weeks that the company could lose it. One day in 1949, Price dropped in, unannounced, on a Manhattan efficiency expert, Mark Cresap, and asked him to study Westinghouse's sales methods, which Price thought needed improving. In 90 days Cresap brought in a report which so impressed Price that he hired Cresap as a vice president, made him his assistant, and set him to mapping an entire new command system...
...DEAN R. CRESAP Palo Alto, Calif...
...sending Logan's words to you I do not mean to question Mr. Cresap's statement that the Captain was entirely innocent of the charge. Logan may have been misinformed, as indeed I hope he was. I send the speech to you because I think it will interest you, as it does...