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...offers a really good evening of simple-minded fun. Less a play than an episodic romp, it tells of Will Stockdale, an incorrigibly good-natured young hillbilly who is inducted into the U.S. Air Force. Will puts his foot in his mouth as nonchalantly as though it were his pipe; he triumphs over every crisis by never knowing he is in one; he stands the Air Force on its ear by looking everyone guilelessly in the eye. So backwoods as not to know that a sergeant is a recruit's natural enemy, Will all but kills his own sergeant...
...Clem Attlee, who at 72 has been Labor's leader for 20 years, sat calmly pulling at his pipe, while Bevanites and moderates raged at each other. Said one delegate: "I see both sides. Some of the union bosses are ruthless and overbearing. Some of the left-wing delegates are ambitious and influenced by the Communists. We must have a leader powerful enough to reconcile and lead both wings...
...mouths." Deduction, based on observation of trifles, was Bell's method. "Most men," he said drily, "have ... a head, two arms, a nose, a mouth." But only the weaver has a weaver's tooth (jagged from biting threads), only a peasant woman smoking a short-stemmed clay pipe has "the ulcer on her lower lip and the glossy scar on her left cheek indicating a superficial burn." Dr. Bell himself was delighted with Doyle's great detective, and liked to brag: "I am Sherlock Holmes...
Commenting on modern adventure writing--he has himself written 25 novels about the sea--he observed, "It's just a racket to make money. As for you masculine writers with their pseudo blood and thunder, it takes more than a pipe to make an author virile...
...humans grow older, the innermost layer (intima) of the arteries, ordinarily a thin, smooth membrane, tends to roughen and thicken in a process that may be compared to what happens when deposits of lime accumulate inside a water pipe. This change in the arterial wall is known generally as atherosclerosis...