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...British Broadcasting Corp. caught a blast from fiery Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham when it offered him a picayunish fee of $60 for a broadcast of "his arrangement of Michael Balfe's The Bohemian Girl. The "arrangement," wrote Sir Thomas, already a bit edgy from an attack of gout, "has involved the thoughts of 25 years ... at no time and nowhere in the course of a long career have I received such a preposterously inadequate, thoughtlessly impudent and magnificently inept offer from anyone." Thoroughly singed by the explosion, an abashed BBC hastily made a "substantially higher" offer, and Sir Thomas...
...father is bald, the baby is most likely to be a boy. But if father has gout, the chances are it will be a girl. These are the conclusions of Marianne E. Bernstein, a former Fulbright fellow who specializes in reducing the facts of life to cold figures...
Alvarez does not prescribe diets for old people except in cases of absolute necessity (e.g., diabetes, severe gout, swelling of the legs). In general, he believes in letting oldsters, whether healthy or ill, eat, smoke and drink what they like. He told of two middle-aged women who brought their spry, neat, 80-year-old father in to see him. Another doctor had found a little high blood pressure, and had deprived the old boy of his pipe, his bedtime highball, his red meat, his table salt, his puttering in the garden and his strolls around town. The father...
...taught the Japanese how to use firearms. As Pinto tells it, he and two other Portuguese were on a Chinese ship which was blown off course and landed at an island off Kyushu. A Japanese prince sent for him, asked him if he knew of a cure for the gout. The prince was delighted when Pinto recommended a mixture of bark and water...
...expression is never found here Chacun à Son Gout; There is only one gout around here And you all know...