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...Story. Plot of The Outlaw starts with Gunman Doc (Walter Huston) arriving in a Western town to find his old friend Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) has gone straight, is now a sheriff. Doc reports that his favorite horse, Red, has been stolen, and the horse is discovered in th° possession of Billy the Kid. Doc's first impulse is to recover his horse. But he realizes Billy can beat him to the draw, and decides to bide his time...
...target and you watch the clock on the dashboard crawl by. Then . . . you see your destination. The speed is picked up and there is a last-minute check on the instruments. Conversation picks up briefly-"Is this the bus to Baltimore?"-"Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here we go." All this is over interphone; . . . there is no talk between ships but you know how the others feel. . . . And then you're in it. Black puffs of smoke begin breaking in front of the nose, off the wing, right overhead. They break suddenly in clusters and hang...
Generation of Vipers is a raging and sometimes very funny set of lay sermons about the human predicament as examined in terms of "you-your home and kiddies, mom and the loved ones, old Doc Smith and the preacher, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Star-Spangled Banner-in short, the American scene" plus the still uglier clutter backstage. Novelist Wylie's high desire is to save the human race from its own worst enemy-itself. Whether he will succeed where such distinguished predecessors as Christ, Dostoevski and Blake have so far failed is open to question...
...Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander by quaint old Trader van Horen." Concludes Satirist Wilson: "And there was also Granville van Arven and his League of American Vipers, but that is another snory...
...dental day began at 8 when Nome's telephone operator, named Jeff, called: "Come on now, Doc. You get up." Dr. Kennedy got to work at 9, shooing late hotel guests out of his waiting room. When a patient came in "who looked as though he had cleaned his teeth with his elbow," Dr. Kennedy told him about toothbrushes and not to come back for treatment until he had used one. The Doctor's hardest cases were the shattered mouths of saloon brawlers...