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...night in a glass of water, self-energizing mustaches, and a gap between his two front teeth that has earned him a reputation in English restaurants as a man who can eat peas with his teeth clenched. He has mastered the wax-fruity manner of the pushy little pip-pipsqueak, up from dreary digs, who would dearly love to be accepted as an old-school-tiehard, but inevitably smacks more of the pub than the club; and since the war he has done an admirable succession of non-U turns as a sort of half-inflated Blimp...
...popped, and some $125,000 had been collected. The show seemed over, but Frank Sinatra, who walked out with Starlet Prowse, could not resist an encore. In the parking lot, a car jockey drove too close to The Presence. Frank, concerned as ever to prove that he is no pip-squeak, pip-squawked: "Can you fight? You'd better be able to." A scuffle followed, and the attendant was taken to the hospital, but how well Frank can fight is still uncertain: according to the casualty, Frank's bodyguard did most of the work...
...most astutely symbolical novel of igth century England was Dickens' Great Expectations. Young Pip. packing his bags for London to become a gentleman, fulfilled the dream image of a confident and ambitious middle class. Since 1954, an equally symbolic novel has come to stand for the small expectations and raddled nerves of null century Britain - and especially its middle-class intellectuals-under the Welfare State. The novel: Kingsley Amis' Lucky...
...Gettysburg, donned a brown-and-black-checked cap, a hip-length windbreaker and heavy leather boots, and puttered about in the crisp fall weather "to get some air." Happily he inspected his 20 head of cattle and chatted with the neighbors who accompanied him. ("She's a pip! . . . We ought to hold on to that one for a while until we see how he develops!") Then, after precisely five hours on the farm, he flew back to Washington to get back to work...
...Patches of Fog." Shortly before 11 p.m. he picked up the pip of a ship on the bridge radarscope (he did not know it was Andrea Doria), about twelve miles off his port bow. Andrea Doria was at that point running a few miles south of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, an "informal" sea lane charted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and generally followed by the big transatlantic liners of the U.S., Britain, France and Holland, but not necessarily by the Italians and the Swedes. Eastbound Stockholm was about 19½ miles north of the eastbound lane...