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When a timid young stranger flops down, "destroyed from walking," in a County Mayo pub and confesses that he has murdered his father in some far place, all the young women in the neighborhood find him superbly glamorous; indeed, the publican's daughter Pegeen is ready to throw over her commonplace swain to marry him. Fired by all this adulation, mousy Christopher Mahon (Burgess Meredith) begins to see himself as a lion, cops all the prizes in a sports contest, becomes a very chesty...
...eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help the Poor Struggler") and to chicken farming...
Meanwhile, in Bath, a National Wheel Racing Mouse Club was organized. Founder Laurie Jackson had already enrolled 48 members, all adults who presumably could be trusted not to ginger up their mice. For a race track they had chartered the "Royal Oak," a hall attached to a Bath pub. In Mouse Monthly, chief spokesman for the N.W.R.M.C., Britons learned more about mouse wheel racing: the track is twelve feet long and has six runways. The mice, one to a runway, propel diminutive wheels, by trotting on a two-inch treadpath. Entry fee for each race: two shillings sixpence. All mice...
Parliament is as different from Congress as the local pub is from the corner drugstore. Congress is, at best, a poor show; the real work of American government being done in the committee room. But Parliament with its ceremony, color, and open debate is the true heart of the British Empire...
...recovering from his wounds in an Army hospital anywhere in England in the six months following D-Day knew the words Lichfield and Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done about...