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...ordinary Soviet witch-burning, and Aleksandrov no ordinary witch. Ally of Politburo Member Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov, son-in-law of Politburo Member Nikita Khrushchev, he had powerful protectors. Himself a member of the Party's Central Committee, the boss of one of its most important branches, he was close to the Soviet Union's mightiest. But it was Stalin who ordered the inquisition, and Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, sometimes mentioned as Stalin's probable successor, who carried it out. It was the nearest thing to a public airing of Politburo squabbling since the great purge trials...
...season was the witch, decked out in a grotesque sausage-shaped nose (see cut), sung by Ruth Kobart, 23, a graduate of Chicago's American Conservatory of Music. Critics thought that Lemonade Opera might have uncovered a potential star in Juilliard-trained Soprano Mary Paull, who sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (and who translated the operas into English...
...Britain last month for his first vacation in ten years. In the midst of Britain's crisis, the Foreign Office ordered him back to the U.S. immediately. But he had come to Britain, protested Inverchapel, on important personal business: to acquire a wife and to exorcise a witch. The Foreign Office thought this a sample of the celebrated Inverchapel wit. It had hardly stopped chuckling before Inverchapel had accomplished both missions...
After the wedding he repaired to his beloved estate of Loch Eck in Argyllshire. His housekeeper there had complained that a local witch was slowly destroying a stone wall that obstructed a path used by witches northward bound to sabbat revels. Inverchapel ordered the wall repaired. Then he solemnly exorcised the witch. Among the paraphernalia of exorcism: a fire on the house terrace, burning brandy, and champagne (taken internally by those in attendance). The housekeeper was satisfied. After all, she said, it was probably only a "wee witch...
...dirty-legged slattern in the prisoner's box squinted nervously at the six U.S. officers on the Munich dais. In staccato tones, U.S. Brigadier General Emil Kiel read her sentence: "Use Koch-life imprisonment." Justice had caught up with the redheaded, 40-year-old Witch of Buchenwald, who had prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp flogged at her pleasure and who had made gloves and lamp shades from their skins after they died of torture...