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...Beach, Calif., writer named James Phelan, who had been hired to ghostwrite the story of the man who knows more than anyone else in the world about the life and times of Howard Hughes. He is Noah Dietrich, 83, who for 32 years was Hughes' chief of staff, hatchet man, fixer and right arm. The conclusion emerging from a study of both manuscripts is that much of Irving's book was lifted from Phelan's writings. Irving could have come into possession of the Phelan version, along with 150 pages of the transcript of tape-recorded interviews...
...formidable military talents at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy. He then joined Chiang's famed 1926 Northern Expedition to defeat the warlords and reunify China. After the split between the Kuomintang and the Communists the following year, Chen excelled as Mao's kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man). He led Mao's rear guard during the Long March, and commanded the New Fourth Army in its fight against the Japanese during World War II. In the civil war that followed, Chen captured Nanking and Shanghai for the Communists. Though suitably bellicose toward the U.S., Chen was considered...
...financial affairs assistant to Dean Dunlop. Kaufmann is responsible for structuring the budget of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Looking ahead at the financial squeeze, Kaufmann sees his position as that of a "hatchet...
When Lesser and Spearmint have a showdown, with hatchet and saber respectively, the abandoned tenement is transformed into a hallucination of a jungle battleground. The realistic props that Malamud has so expertly designed are yanked away, and the two writers assume the proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are struck. White buries his weapon in black's brain. Black directs a castrating swipe at white's sexuality. Malamud himself brings the curtain down with the brooding thought that at the moment of ritual bloodletting each felt the anguish of the other...
Christopher Davis, always a painstaking craftsman (Ishmael, Lost Summer), reacts to the situation by underwriting to the point of blandness. His subject is William Kemmler, an ignorant laborer who back in 1889 took a hatchet to his common-law wife when she complained of his sexual inadequacies at the wrong moment...