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...Technicolored dream to a fantastic castle in which Dr. Terwilliker keeps a mile-long two-decker piano. At this preposterous musical instrument the teacher plots and schemes to trap 500 boys ("Think of it! Five thousand fingers!") who have been dragged from their ballplaying. Happily, a likable plumber named Zabladowski comes to the rescue of the boy and his pretty mother (who was only under the unspeakable Terwilliker's hypnotic spell), and Dr. T., of course, gets his comeuppance...
Hans Conried makes a thoroughly mean Terwilliker. Peter Lind Hayes as the plumber and Mary Healy as the mother are ingratiating new screen personalities. As the boy, ten-year-old Tommy Rettig moves appealingly through all the excitement in striped polo shirt, blue jeans, and a blue beanie with a hand ("Happy Fingers") fixed...
...moved in. He was followed some years later by F. C. Huntington, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and long the University preacher. Huntington was regarded as somewhat of an apostate when he finally turned Episcopalian after a long Unitarian career, and Felton summed him up, too. "Christian Professor of Plumber's Morals," said...
Display of Might. In burly (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) George Meany, the A.F.L. had found a leader far different from quiet, colorless Bill Green. The son of a New York plumber and himself an apprentice plumber at 16, Meany, now 58, is a genial extrovert who firmly believes that a labor leader should be concerned with more than pork chops for his boys. An aggressive speaker with a talent for sticking to the pertinent facts, he became business representative for New York Plumbers Local 463 at 28. At 40, he was the youngest president of the New York...
...nitrous oxide anesthesia) lasted 2½ hours, most of that time was taken up in getting to the aorta. Then Dr. Hufnagel cut the aorta a few inches from the heart and fitted the loose ends of the aorta to the ends of the plastic valve sleeve. Like a plumber putting an extra valve in a water line, he left the old, defective valve in place. This part of the operation took only five minutes, and the blood flow to the brain was never interrupted...