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...exceeded four feet at some point in history," the philosopher told his amazed listeners, "has stimulated important research in the physicology of growth and shrinkage." Another intriguing question which must be studied, according Homer, is whether, during the brightly over-mined crust stage, man had any sort of optic organ...
...Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon." The operation went off with a burst of flashbulbs and headlines. Unfortunately, Mr. Bacon looked ten years older after his rejuvenation:"One result of the operation was the complete riddance of his carnal thoughts. He retired...
Down went this fighter to the rug. He roared out 'Foul!' The house dick burst in upon him to see the splendid athlete holding his groin, moaning like a busted pipe organ, and refusing to come out for another round." To Fowler's generation of writers, New York was always the Big Town, a drink was spiritus frumenti, and Broadway was the Rue Regret. Reading Skyline with or without spiritus frumenti, one question is bound to arise: Where are the monkey glands of yesteryear...
...Murrow's apocalyptic voice and Delphic punditry first gained force during his CBS ''THIS . . . is London" newscasts during World War II. As CBS's top commentator, and later as a director and vice president in charge of news and special events, he lent the same organ-toned quality to such TV shows as Person to Person and See It Now (both programs have since been dropped). Because of apparent differences on policy with the network brass, he took a sabbatical in 1959, popped up again last year to take on a new documentary series, CBS Reports...
Failure of Faith. Dr. Fisher has been one of the least pompous of prelates-after a minor operation in 1939, he played Pack Up Your Troubles and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes on a barrel organ in Chester Market Square to raise funds for the hospital in which he had been treated. He has also been one of the least consistent. He has been more conservative than British public opinion on such issues as racial segregation ("This is not the sort of thing we should get excited and fanatical about") and divorce ("Adultery is becoming such a menace that...