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...Britain was braced for the expected shock. At Scotland Yard a special control center was set up to coordinate minute-by-minute reports from an armada of police cars. Squadrons of spotter planes stood fueled and ready for takeoff. Said Transport Minister Ernest Marples: "We kept going during the blitz, and we shall keep going...
...wretch so practiced at sleazy sleight-of-mind that, although he is a bachelor, he tells everyone that he has a wife and six sickly children. The other is the unnamed Assistant Commissioner, an old jungle hand stiff with integrity and old wounds and hated by his underlings at Scotland Yard. He is a magnificent Greene hero who pursues criminals with stolid skill, shutting away the unhappy knowledge that his quarries receive justice only accidentally...
Endless Gibes. The Tour has a double value to the very degree that Boswell had a double aim in writing it. His first concern was his hero, and only his second the Hebrides. The two objectives sometimes gloriously combine, but they can just as gloriously clash. Scotland was always for Johnson a pet target that he waggishly exploited as a pet aversion; it produced endless gibes on tour as well as at home...
...been following us with that thing ever since we left the Crinan Canal." bellowed England's Prince Philip, 41, to a telephoto-toting Scottish newspaper photographer chasing along the bank as the duke's royal yawl Bloodhound maneuvered through locks near Fort William, Scotland. "Do you want a bloody picture of my left earhole?" he cried. At least the Scottish edition of the Daily Herald did, next day ran a picture of the regal left ear along with a verbatim account of the royal remarks...
...Notorious Landlady is Kim Novak, and her tenant, Jack Lemmon, does not ask for anything more until Scotland Yard prods him into a situation in which he makes some horribly funny discoveries...