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...Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...
...after. Consulting his expectations, he believes that he is likely to be better off five years from now, in the spring of '53, rather than worse off. Most optimistic are Britons (3 to 1) and Italians (5 to 1). Meanwhile, despite economic and political issues that devil him whenever he stops to think about them, the Western European has work...
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat; Octet for Wind Instruments (Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Stravinsky's seldom-heard 1918 setting of the old Russian tale of a soldier, his violin and the devil ranks among his masterpieces. L'Histoire sounds almost like a full orchestra; actually only seven instruments are used, but used for all they're worth. Recording: excellent...
...Timothy throws his Bible in the fireplace and burns the house down while two of its occupants are asleep, it looks like an accident, but Sinkanda knows better. She and Tim have an affair that is both earthy and unearthly. Together they fly to Hell for a visit to.the Devil, a scene which, as handled by Miss...
...nothing his father said or did could stop him. On Sundays, his mousy spinster aunt sneaked him off to a church where he could hear an organ. By the time he was eleven, he was composing a church service every week ("I used to write like the devil in those days," he apologized later). He toured the petty courts of Italy and Germany, played for cardinals, dukes and princes. By the time he was 25, George Frederick Handel was Hanover's Kapellmeister and one of the most talked-about young musicians in Europe...