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...FLOWERS FOR SHINER (372 pp.) -Richard Llewellyn-Macmillan...
Hairy-chested Novelist Ernest Hemingway, 49, on a hunting and fishing trip in Italy, drove into Padua for treatment of a shiner. He explained, briefly, that he had "run into...
Pierre Monteux, French-born conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was seeing through a beefsteak, darkly. While watching his first baseball game in Hancock, Me. he was bopped in the eye by a foul ball. But along with the shiner he acquired wisdom: "Now I understand why baseball is so popular. Even when you only watch it, you are part of the game...
Said Dyall, calling the magistrate's attention to his shiner: "I found myself with this. I asked a man if he had done it, and he replied: 'Probably,' with a rather happy look. Then the trouble started...
King Lear had a shiner. Laurence Olivier, set to play the role in Paris this week, got it in a brawl with a minor Old Vic player who had attacked him, declared Olivier's lawyer, "without any excuse whatever." Wife Vivien Leigh gave the fellow a queenly belt over the head with a poker...