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...favorite. In the funniest passage in the book, McCauley describes how a country boy behaved in one of the elegant restaurants there. "I saw I had overjumped my pile but I looked wise, told the waiter to bring me a steak about the size of a mule's lip from the ear down and to put in a few more things that would fill up, like fried eggs. I did the best I could to get on the outside of all of it. Asked what I owed them. Said $2.50. Called the proprietor. He come in with a collar...
...hand, a man is apt to know his nonreading habits only too well. In the eyes of the overworked businessman or scientist whose leisure-time intake during the past year has consisted of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and 94 pages of The Group, even the lip-moving fellow commuter who mumbles his way through a Leon Uris novel is someone to be regarded with awe. The nonreading executive often feels like an Edgar Allan Poe character who is slowly but surely being sealed off from the rest of the world by a wall of unread books...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Leo Durocher-san will try out his Japanese lip giving the play-byplay of the Japanese All-Star baseball game in Tokyo...
Since then he has gathered the largest such collection in the U.S. One figure, a beautifully preserved Peruvian drinking vessel, has a black-spotted face, black hands, a lip partially eaten away -symptoms of leprosy. Others lie on hospital beds, held down by restraining bonds as if they had a violent illness. Some seem to show the ravages of smallpox, cancer, dropsy, malnutrition, and give evidence of impressive achievements in techniques of amputation and other surgery a thousand years before Columbus. Pregnancy, an annual event, is portrayed as a happy occurrence, except for one rare sculpture of a dejected girl...
...when he was 17 he lost his father, a member of the petty nobility. "By nature impressionable and eager," as he remarks in La Commedia, the boy somehow acquired a superb intellectual education. At an early age his appearance was forceful-hook nose, big jaw, protruding lower lip-and his disposition thorny. "He was somewhat presumptuous, disdainful and haughty," according to a contemporary, "and knew not well how to bear himself with common people...