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...tells of a roistering, 19th century innkeeper on the Cumberland River whose pleasure it is to lead travelers to his spring and then kill and rob them. His son escapes, returns in Act II (twelve years later) unrecognized, and allows himself to die under his father's hatchet. Composer Van Buskirk, who composed his score on piano and tape recorder, gave the orchestra a plaintive parlor-organ quality and the singers some striking dramatic climaxes...
...Bulgarian Politburo charged him with "violation of legality in the trial of Kostov," pronounced Kostov posthumously innocent, and freed his accomplices. Last week Chervenkov's comrades deposed him as Premier, relegated him to one of four Deputy Premiers. His successor: dandified Anton Yugov, 52, a home-grown hatchet man who, as Interior Minister in 1945, admittedly executed 2,000 political enemies. Tito's Yugoslavs will presumably find Yugov more friendly than the Wolf. Bulgarians are unlikely to notice much difference...
Once, consultants were little more than efficiency experts with a fancier title. Today the management consultant tries to be a hired superman: a co-strategist, talent scout, policy adviser, hatchet man (to chop down executive deadwood), naysayer and new-business finder. In the postwar boom the consultant business (2,000 firms grossing more than $400 million annually) has grown faster than ever, as industrialists, facing the largest opportunities (and pitfalls) in history, have looked for experienced guides for mergers and for diversification...
...Communist heroes go these days, a slim, hatchet-faced Hungarian army lieutenant named Sandor Iharos is a singular exception. For one thing, he is not a Communist Party member. All he knows about Marxism, he says, he learned by rote in school. And as a soldier he fights strictly from a desk. All Sandor really has to do is run, and he does that so well that he now holds five world records (from 1,500 to 5,000 meters). In sports-happy Hungary, excitement boils any time he shucks his sweat pants and gets to work, for Sandor...
Having succeeded, over the past few years, in doing your part in the "hatchet job" on Toe McCarthy, you have now decided to try your best in mocking and smearing another great American, Bill Jenner of Indiana . . . You imply that Jenner's charge of George Marshall being a "front man for traitors was untrue. Yet, in using these words, he was being kind to George Marshall, for the record, fully documented by McCarthy, Jenner and others, shows that it was Marshall, Acheson, Jessup and others of the same mode of thinking who sold China down the river...