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...Adventures of Baron Munchausen by R. E. Raspe and others. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. 138 pages. Pantheon. $7.95. Baron Munchausen became prince of prevaricators in 1785 and has reigned ever since. In this latest edition, a cherry tree blossoms again between the antlers of a stag, etc. Ronald Searle competes well with such celebrated previous illustrators as Gustave Dore and Rowlandson...
...SUITE (London). These high-spirited orchestral sketches are based on an opera celebrating the exploits of Háry János, the Magyar Baron Munchausen. The musical climax is Háry's singlehanded defeat of Napoleon, an event that will not be found in the history books. Hungarian Conductor Istvan Kertesz extracts bright colors from the London Symphony Orchestra, augmented by a cymbalum, a Hungarian dulcimer. The disk also offers the dazzling Dances of Galánta, named for the little town where Kodály as a boy listened to the gypsies play...
...Baron Munchausen was a grand character, but he was a fiction. Gaston Bullock Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...
...Senator Humphrey's wild imagination ran riot when he began to make up his inventions about the relations between the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic. In this he even surpassed the well-known compiler of lies, Baron Munchausen." Without explicitly denying Humphrey's report that Khrushchev had described China's communes as "reactionary," Khrushchev said: "The idea that I could have been in any way confidential with a man who himself boasts of his 20-year struggle against Communism can only serve to raise a laugh...
...Referring to the autobiographic tall tales in Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, written as a 49-page potboiler in London in 1785 by Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-94), a fugitive embezzler from Hanover, and enlarged in later editions by Grub Street hacks...