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...close enough to the shooting to be superficially injured by a mortar shell fragment in fighting near Cassino in 1943. Applying for a fresh Band-Aid, he was handed a Purple Heart to go with it-and turned the incident into an incisive cartoon. "Just gimme a coupla aspirin," says Willie to the Medical Corpsman offering him a medal. "I already got a Purple Heart...
...Stretch, Sellers plays a "wide boy" (small-time crook) who has a chance to "hoist . . . a coupla million nicker" (steal ?2,000,000) but unfortunately finds himself "in boob" (in jail). Fortunately, Jailbird Sellers inhabits a gilded cage that contains a radio, a wine cellar, a fully equipped kitchen, a cuckoo clock, an amiable tabby. Milk and papers are delivered every morning by the local tradesmen. The turnkey knocks timidly before entering and walks the cat upon request. Morning massage by a cellmate is followed by classes in basket weaving, fretwork and (when the warden looks the other way) safe...
...save a few bucks by moochin' a coupla free meals at the house that rushes us," suggested another...
...blood pressure is poifick. It was 150 vitriolic and 98 diabolic . . . The doctor . . . said I had a coupla minor ailments and I says, 'That's funny. I never woiked in the mines ... So he told me I had fallen archeries . . . Since I went on that diet I ain't got no ulsters or no abominable trouble ... I had to practickly fast for a coupla days-jest a large cup of demitasse in the mornin' . . . He said I didn't have no sign of kodiak trouble around the heart or no coroner's trombone disease...
...budget, and have a wonderful time doing it. Some of the money comes from such citizens as Evan Evans, 68, proprietor of "Pop's Beer Depot," who doesn't care about music but still feels that, "Well, you got to give them a coupla dollars-it gives a lot of people a lot of pleasure...