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...Bowler's Thumb. Internist Berry's handbook is an up-to-date endorsement of old-fashioned observation. When a patient has hands with swollen-tipped, "clubbed" fingers, and if there is also reddish-brown coloration to the skin at the base of the nails, says Dr. Berry, the man is suffering from cyanotic heart disease. "Blue babies" (with Fallot's tetralogy) develop similar signs, but when surgery has sealed the leak between the right and left sides of the heart, the clubbing and the discoloration dramatically disappear. If the pigmentation is not present, the spatulate fingers...
...Berry's chapters would have delighted Sherlock Holmes, with illustrations of such occupational trademarks as cellist's callus (on the tip of the left pinkie) and bowler's thumb (with a thickened joint). But one anomaly, known among gypsy fortune tellers as "murderer's thumb," indicates nothing: a wide, short thumb and nail are found as often on professional golfers as on stranglers...
...lives by love but loves at random wherever his love will stick." He lives with his parents in a London suburb, and agrees to go to work as a shoe salesman in the big London store where his father is a department manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe, madam, seamless uppers, a discreet buckle and a soft dimple...
...deal's been made," shouted a stubble-bearded Bernard Rifkin. "I'm getting the hell out of here!" And out he went, elbowing past the bowler-hatted women guards, and down the narrow stairs to the dirt street below. After him tumbled three more Americans and 13 other hostages, as their surprised lady jailers shrieked at them to halt. "The uncertainty was the signal to move," Michael A. Kristula recalled later. "I said to myself that if the crowd outside was hostile, all we could do was go up the stairs again. But the crowd was friendly...
...guards. Reported Scott: "The women are surly, well armed, impulsive and dangerous. Even if the men wanted to relent and give up the hostages, it would be difficult without the safe return of Escobar and Pimentel. The authority, such as it is, lies in the primitive breasts of these bowler-hatted women...