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Pile Driver, who fell asleep in the gate last year, has recently looked promising while dragging for oats in the paddock...
...dropped its magnetically-held ballast eggs some two land one half miles beneath the Atlantic's waves and bobbed up for air, thus completing the deepest dive in history. If any group was unimpressed it was the scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute of most descents (Piccard fell asleep on one) the Institute has generally eschewed the dramatic single man exploits and worked instead with teams of scientists in a matter-of-fact litter of colorful instruments. In place of the squat and formidible Bathyscaphe most of the material gathering for the institute is done by the unique Atlantis...
Patrolling the University's buildings at night is not a boring job. While there is not anything unusual about the long quiet corridors in the hours when undergraduate are considered to be asleep, the surroundings are always potentially explosive. Sometimes there are complications in the nature of the buildings itself, or sometimes in the people who room there, but night watchmen say that the problems come up, whatever the location...
...Winner is not quite a mess: in this, his 28th play, Rice is like a horse that knows the road so well he can stay on it even when the driver falls asleep. But he weaves and ambles, with no real sense of where he is going, and he offers such comic dialogue as "Would you hazard a guess as to the duration of the cogitational period?" As the heroine, Joan Tetzel can only be violent and affected as a way of seeming upset. As the successful suitor, Tom Helmore has far better methods of seeming nonchalant...
Most of the book's main characters are intact-Messrs. Pickwick, Winkle, Tupman and Snodgrass, the indomitable Sam ("The world is wery full of willains") Weller, the scapegrace Jingle, Mr. Wardle ("Joe? Drat that boy! He's asleep again!"), Serjeant Buzfuz, Mrs. Bardell, the pettifogging Dodson & Fogg. Most of the main "adventures in the course of enlightenment" are related-Winkle's duel with Dr. Slammer ("Mr. Pickwick, do not obtain the assistance of several peace officers to take either me or Dr. Slammer into custody. I say do not."), the "gammoning" of Rachel Wardle, Mr. Pickwick caught...