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...Gillies, the plastic surgeon is well advised to aim short of perfection. "It is important to remember when remaking the nose for a one-eyed lad not to build the bridge so high that he cannot see the motor bus coming from the blind side." This reminds him of the one-eyed Count of Montefeltro (1422-82), who deliberately had part of his nasal bridge removed: "Thus his one good eye peeking through the notch in his nose discouraged friends sitting on his blind side from trying to poison...
...member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention in Seattle, it was Speechmaker Beck who caught the favor of International President Dan Tobin. Says another old Teamster: "Dan thought he could control a nice, clean-cut lad like Dave Beck." Result: Brewster was bypassed, and Beck got the promotion-promising job as I.B.T. organizer in Seattle...
...plot advances with what at first seems blissful naivete, but the dependable simplicity and expectability of nearly everything soon becomes a pleasant, quiet part of Wee Geordie's world. Geordie is painfully tiny as a bright young lad. He enrolls in Mr. Samson's Home Bodybuilding Course. When next seen, at the age of twenty-one, he is a well-built tower, about six and one-half feet high. He wins the hammer throw in the Olympics, and then promptly renounces athletics to return to his highland lass, and to resume the idyllic life as the Laird's head gamekeeper...
Suddenly a hush came over the crowd, and somebody started playing "Pomp and Circumstance" on the piano. I saw Carroll dashing to some pre-arranged place, and a solemn lad strode up on the stage carrying a little pot. A Pudding pot, I assume. Someone started giving a speech, and I drifted over to check on Miss Baker...
...need for a new code has been long felt in the industry and most directors have become quite adroit at suggesting rather than stating the obvious, or implying one thing and saying another. The movie-version of Tea and Sympathy for instance, turned a lad suspected of homosexuality into an introvert who didn't like sports. But the theme of The Man With the Golden Arm could not be twisted enough to fit inside the limits of the Old Code. As one wit put it, "You just can't make a dope addict into an off-beat character." The film...