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Jack's hero in Three Cheers for Me is Bartholomew Bandy, whose long and inscrutably deadpan face exasperates everyone who lays eyes upon it. Bandy's blank exterior hides nothing but innocence. Son of a Canadian cleric, he is unsullied by liquor or women. But then Bandy goes off to fight in World War I and lurches into manhood like a drunk stumbling down a flight of stairs-always headed in the right direction but never quite in control of himself or the situation...
...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...
...doctors and patients now take NHS for granted. Explained a Glasgow doctor: "It's like the income tax-part of our way of life. We moan about it, but we can't imagine being without it." At St. Bartholomew's Hospital's first-rate Medical College in London, Dean D. F. Ellison Nash said: "We couldn't have kept up with diagnosis, treatment and medical care without a national service." A London painter: "It's not all that good, not for what you get out of it. But abolish it? Not that, mate...
...highly respected Zentralblatt für Bacteriologie, Bacteriologist Heinz J. Dombrowski reported that he had revived dehydrated bacteria preserved in rock salt since the Permian Period 180 million years ago. In Britain's Nature, Dr. George Claus of New York University Medical Center and Chemistry Professor Bartholomew Nagy of Fordham University reported finding dead organisms that may have ridden in from outer space aboard meteorites...
...brilliant idea," said the Rev. Newell Wallbank of St. Bartholomew the Great last week. In nine years since the London Guild Church Act was passed, the church has come alive in the City. Today some City churches have larger congregations five days a week than many a country church sees of a Sunday. Pavement posters and office notice boards attract City workers to concerts and choir practice, discussion groups and short straight services. "I don't often attend actual services," said one office worker last week, "but I sometimes go into a church on my way back from lunch...