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...months ago, when Mary Ann developed a cold and fever, the Gibsons' family doctor advised the parents to take her to Los Angeles' Childrens Hospital. Through their stethoscopes, pediatricians at the hospital heard the peculiar swish that signifies heart murmur. They noted other symptoms: sallow face, slanted eyes, puffy abdomen, great toes widely separated from the other toes, a pronounced line down the soles of both feet, flabby muscles, and a protruding tongue. The dread diagnosis: Mongolism...
...this is going to be a shock." It is likely to be more than that-in view of the dreadful revelation of "bulges in the wrong places." a ghastly "sag" in the abdomen, the flesh "flabby" overall, and blown up bolsterwise into "a roll around the midriff," the "splotchy, sallow" skin, the "dull, faded, gray, stringy" hair, the "red-rimmed, bloodshot, dark-circled" eyes, the "rough, red, chapped" hands. Questions come flooding to the smeared lips: "Do you need a deodorant?" "Do you use meaningless ejaculations like 'Oh, boy!'" "Do you have something to offer...
...bestselling novel of the same name. It tells the story of an Indianapolis family held prisoner in its own home by three escaped convicts who are ready to do anything, and the worse the better, to avoid capture. The leader of the gang (Humphrey Bogart) is a sallow old paranoid with nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny with hot pants and cold feet. The third con (Robert Middleton) is a 260-lb. flitch of muscle directed...
...handle their dramatic subject with a "documentary" technique the producers have come up with an overexcited document, and a drama that too often trickles away into the fine print. And yet Phenix City has the force of see-and-touch realism. The action was filmed among the same sallow bars, heat-shimmering sidewalks and deceptively innocent-looking back lots that watched it in the life. The actors try hard to weather naturally into the scene. Edward Andrews succeeds wonderfully: he hits the apogee of Southern villainy as he slomires agreeably about town, sweet-talking old ladies, flipping quarters like...
...prose, and showed new ways to new generations of writers. He was imitated not only by other writers but by uncounted young men who, in fact or fancy, sought to live as dashingly as he. From Paris bistros to Chicago saloons, he is known as a character-not the sallow, writing type with an indoor soul, but a literary heman. When his plane crashed on safari in Africa last winter and for nearly a day he was believed dead, even people who do not like his books felt a strange, personal sense of loss, and even people who never read...