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...worked his way through the young satirists and playwrights, and others who are now angry at being called Angry Young Men. His interviews ranged from the Savile Club to Colin MacInnes' bare flat, where they drank scotch-laced coffee and listened to Billie Holiday records to take the chill off a freezing morning. Donald Connery, fresh from the cooler precincts of Moscow, rode the train north to such unemployment spots as Liverpool and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Though Connery's mother was born on the Tyne, he reports, "I have heard more understandable English in Calcutta and Katmandu than...
...strange contest ensues, in which she barters for his body and he gambles to save her soul. On the surface, Milk Train is Flora's story and incontestably Hermione Baddeley's vehicle. She can put the chill of mortality into a sibilant whisper, all vanity into a grandiose Churchillian lisp, all lechery into a creamy smirk. As she coughs, groans and rages about the stage, she is larger than death...
...after the priest and just before the hearse. If the victim looked sick enough, Casimir would give him a quarter. "Go buy yourself some ice cream," he would say cheerily, tipping his hat to the dying man's family. Everyone knew that a quarter from Casimir had the chill of the grave on it. At funerals, the band would play John Casimir's Whoopin' Blues, and the woebegone wail of Casimir's clarinet sounded like a widow's cry against the big brassy shout of his band...
Even Father brings no chill...
...began on a chill, grey afternoon 20 years ago. The site was a laboratory in a squash court beneath the stands of the University of Chicago's old Stagg Field Stadium. Gathered there was a team of scientists and engineers headed by Enrico Fermi, a refugee from Mussolini's Italy. They had finished building history's first nuclear reactor. Now they were using it to produce the first controlled nuclear reaction...