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...piano. In the clanging chords of the opening, he was in brilliant form. A few minutes later, he seemed to be bending close to the piano, listening. Then his left hand fell from the piano, his head almost touched the keys. A second later he rolled off the stool on to the floor. It was a cerebral hemorrhage. Doctors were called to the stage, but Simon Barere was beyond aid; within ten minutes he was dead...
...Drug Store Stool...
...found it thrilling to savor the commonplace of American life again: to sit on a drug store stool, with a slight aroma of pharmaceuticals in my nostrils, and suck through a straw at a chocolate malted milk with an extra scoop of ice cream. Just watch that fellow dig the stuff, creamy and smooth, out of the bucket. Beyond any doubt ice cream is America's national food. When Americans came back from prisoner-of-war camps at the end of the last war there was one thing they all asked for: ice cream...
Psychologist Wilson himself was by no means accepted on faith. Under cover of interior construction work, the convicts wired his office for evidence that he might be some new kind of spy for the warden. Once the prisoners decided that "Doc" was no stool pigeon, they were fiercely loyal. They cracked the skull of a disgruntled convict who spoke ill of the Doc, and once they rushed him off to the safety of a storeroom when a few other cons staged an armed break. Later, Wilson learned that the jailbreakers had intended to kidnap him as a hostage...
...like a jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...