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...freak farm accident in Castle-blayney two years ago, Cyril Morrison, nine-year-old son of an Irish farm worker, got himself pinned between a tractor and a stone wall. The accident splintered the boy's jaw and sent a knifelike sliver slicing across the base of his tongue. It cut the tongue off close to the roots...
...local doctor put a temporary splint on the broken jawbone and sent Cyril to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital. His fractured jaw was soon on the road to recovery, but he still lacked a tongue. Last week, after a series of delicate grafting operations performed in London's Westminster Hospital, at the expense of Britain's national health plan, Cyril had a new tongue. It had been built by three surgeons out of muscle tissue from the floor of his mouth wrapped around with thinly sliced skin from...
Prudential Family Playhouse (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS). Ruggles of Red Gap, with Cyril Ritchard, Glenda Farrell, Walter Abel...
...Relapse contains, however, the brightest of his characters, the fatuous coxcomb Lord Foppington. All prance, prattle and fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity...
...Mary McCarthy ... is something so rare today, an original, tough-minded word-lover," notes Cyril (Horizon) Connolly. But it is the McCarthy pursuit of sonorous words and elegant expression that makes puppets of her characters in these stories and gives to her most truthful perceptions an air of very intellectual, very elegant emptiness. Only in The Cicerone, a story about Americans in Italy which contains a bawdy, hilarious caricature of an expatriate heiress, does Author McCarthy recall what good company she can be when she stops her hollow groans and starts kicking her words around...