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...formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...
...highest rates of stomach cancer, and the disease there is commoner among men than among women. Says Honolulu's Dr. Walter B. Quisenberry: Japanese men usually eat first, while the food is very hot; they drink scalding tea; they then drink more alcohol than their womenfolk. He also suggests that traditional stoicism may predispose Japanese men to psychosomatic stomach ulcers and later cancers. In the Scandinavian countries, doctors blame high rates of stomach cancer on diets rich in fish, with home-smoked fish particularly suspected in Iceland...
Predictably, the trend is to luxury and gadgetry. Small runabouts with rakish lines, chrome fittings, and decorator-styled upholstery look more and more like cars, presumably to attract diffident womenfolk. Oceangoing yachts sport bulkhead-to-bulkhead carpeting and baby blue staterooms. New compact radar sets, depth-sounders and other electronic gear cram the cockpits. Pushbutton winches eliminate the need to "weigh" anchor. Hot-water heating, cold-water cooling, seawater evaporators and adapters for turning iceboxes into electric refrigerators lure the boat owner. Apparently it takes a heap of gadgets to make a boat a home...
...wenbräu and listened damp-eyed to old recordings of long-gone Rhineland carillons. In Georgia, the holiday mornings began with bacon, eggs, red-eye gravy, biscuits, grits, deer sausage, fried catfish, cornbread, buttermilk, waffles, French toast, hotcakes and heaps of fruit. In the afternoon the womenfolk gathered in the big kitchen to prepare scalloped oysters and smoked turkey, fried chicken and black-eyed peas (cooked 24 hours), pot roast and cracklin' bread. The men strolled outside with their cigars, their vests unbuttoned, and examined the flower beds, kicked the tires on the model T, or organized...
...cares overmuch. For, in truth, Elmer proves to be a very entertaining and lavishly constructed film. Burt Lancaster (who copped one of those towards) is a share hypocrite indeed at Sect Leader; and Jean Simmons and Shirley Jones (the other Award reciplent) are admirable as his womenfolk. Daily...