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...London theater to make room for the premiere of Laurence Olivier's version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Sam had dropped Anne a line, asking her to see it with him. While waiting for her at the cinema, Sam fortified himself at the next-door pub with two pints of bitter and a rum-and-Coke. Wasn't he nervous? "She's like any other bird, really," he gulped. When Anne turned up, though, and proffered her hand, Sam kissed it -strictly not done with royalty, and certainly not the customary greeting for birds...
...impact of prime-time football on show business-and on American home life-is also still undetermined. ABC's only beef so far is that the audience figures, encouraging as they are, do not include an estimated 250,000 additional males catching the Monday games at the corner pub...
...continued to carry himself like a retired welterweight who might be thinking of a comeback, though he now pushed a bank clerk's belly. Age had performed interesting surgery on his face: cast him as a cab-driver, Chicago alderman, Irish cop, dart-champion in a workingman's pub, sly old convict; his face, like that of the late Everett Dirksen, told something of where he had been. Styron's face was a gentle mystery. Smooth for its forty-five years, it had of late come to look maybe a touch soft-trough so unblemished you wondered if his secret...
...editors and publishers are highly competent, and the long-run future looks good if we can get through this difficult time." Still, says Steinberg, the next time he tries to acquire a British company, he will be sure to tune in on the talk at a Fleet Street pub...
Though Colonsay boasts only one store and a pub, McPhee writes, "things amplify. It may be the light." The mountains seem bigger than they are, the cairns like fortresses, the people like characters out of sagas, even though they are cattle farmers, shepherds, dock keepers, postmen, laborers-sometimes a little of each. The past, running easily into the present, gives it a special meaning. Donald Gibbie, for example, worked ceaselessly to earn the equivalent of $1,500 a year. Nevertheless, being a blood-proud descendant of the island's ancient chiefs, when he happens to walk past a particular...