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Ever since Dr. Ernest L. Wynder began trying to convince the world of the dangers of cancer in cigarette smoking, he has looked as cheerful as a basset hound being dragged through a cactus patch. Last week he looked as sad-eyed as ever, but he had good news for smokers. Cigarettes, he told the American Association for Cancer Research, have been made " less hazard ous" - he would not say "safer" - in the last few years, and they are being made still less hazardous...
...Basic Basset. Ciji and her peer group think that it is also the essence of cool to see Bogey films on the eve of examinations. "There's something just so heroic about going to see something anti-intellectual the night before an exam," she explains. "Like imitating Bogart's I-don't-give-a-damn attitude...
Murder at the Gallop. Margaret Rutherford plays the indomitable Miss Marple again in a hilarious Agatha Christie story that gives her full opportunity to display her basset-like qualities in tracking down a murderer...
Handling the ball brilliantly, Mike Basset pitched to Hobie Armstrong, who handed the ball to Taylor on a double reverse. Taylor gained a few yards before being trapped, and then flipped to Bassett on his left...
...best situation comedy that has ever been on television. As Ralph Kramden. husband and bus driver. Gleason stared with massive malevolence at his mother-in-law and pounded the kitchen table, a big man with big gestures under a half-acre of black curls. He looked like a big basset hound who had just eaten W. C. Fields, his expression a melange of smugness, mischievousness, humility, humor, guilt, pride, warmth, confidence, perplexity, and orotund, bug-eyed naivete...