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Harrison & Higgins, Inc. In Higgins, Rex Harrison plays a character close to his own-which may actually be more difficult than hiding behind King Lear's beard or Pistol's putty nose. Harrison and Higgins are both aggressively British and crisply upper crust. Both are absorbed in their work and in themselves. Both are curt, clear, complacent. Both can be beastly and charming at the same time. Or, as Rex puts it: "I always find it less difficult than some actors to be irascible without being unpleasant. I've taken over some of Higgins...
...young, giving no impression whatever of having seen "forty years and one thousand lowerings" on whaling ships. His bland face has nothing of the torn, tortured, gnawed-at, fiery look that Ahab should have. Rather, as he paces the Pequod's deck, his long strides, suspenders, beard, and melancholy, almost soft, expression remind the viewer more of one of Ahab's prominent but quite contrasting contemporaries--Abe Lincoln...
...body, found in a Danish peat bog, was buried 8 ft. deep. It was naked except for a cap and belt, had a one-day stubble of beard on its face and was perfectly preserved. The plaited-leather hangman's noose around its neck indicated that the man had been strangled before being thrown into the bog. The peat cutters who found it hastened to call the police. But the police were unable to solve the mystery and did not really care. The body had been lying in the peat for some 2,000 years...
Bench & Bar. In Milan, Italy, disguised behind stolen sunglasses, a natty grey flannel suit and a bogus beard made from shaving-brush bristles, Convict Francesco Boschi joined a party of visiting attorneys, calmly walked past saluting guards in the first successful break from San Vittore Prison in eleven years...
Ecclesiastics Are Politicians. Founder Uchimura, born to a samurai family in 1861, was introduced to Christianity at twelve, when a Tokyo schoolmate invited him "to a certain place in the foreigners' quarter, where we can hear pretty women sing and a tall, big man with a long beard shout and howl upon an elevated place, flinging his arms and twisting his body in all fantastic manners, to all of which admittance is entirely free." Later, at an American-founded agricultural school...