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...imposing paunch that leads Walter W. Fuller wherever he goes is a badge of long and dedicated service performed by a man who has eaten as much Kiwanis, Optimist, Lion, Eagle, Elk and DeMolay creamed peas and ham as anyone else in Detroit. Fuller belongs to all those societies and, thanks to honorary memberships, many more. But bald, indefatigably gregarious Walter Fuller, 60, is more than a mere joiner: he is also the fraternal editor of the Detroit News...
...hard on Ahab. They accuse him of worshiping false gods and object to his marrying Jezebel, a Phoenician woman who was cursed by the prophet Elijah. Eventually, a later conqueror fulfilled Elijah's curse by having her thrown from a window, trampled to death by horses, and eaten by dogs. "And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands...
There is no sign in Mr. Mayer of the uncompromising toughness of mind needed for the task he sets himself. For all his surface cynicism he is worm-eaten with sentimentality. Whenever he tries to rationalize the situations he creates, to give the audience a perspective on the action, the sentimentality crops out depressingly. Because of it, many moments that are supposed to be touching come close to being laughable...
...living organisms, and Dr. Fox carried the process a step farther. When he heated a mixture of amino acids with polyphosphoric acid as a catalyst, he got big molecules with many of the properties of proteins, i.e., they have similar chemical characteristics, are digested by natural enzymes and are eaten greedily by bacteria...
...bearskin, and the flies were driving him mad ..." The son objects contemptuously: "I don't like the way he tells it, he's all mixed up." Determinedly, the father plows on. The reader may reflect that for a Henry Miller heroine, Goldilocks gets off easily. She is eaten by the three bears...