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...staff had been moving some pictures around that night, the gallery's elaborate electronic alarm system was not turned on until late. In the men's room, police found marks on a radiator under a window. The thief could have climbed out that window and down a workman's ladder that had been left in the courtyard, then over a 12-ft. wall and out onto Orange Street, which is all but deserted in the evening...
...quite magnificently scornful Polish Lady (a circus acrobat as well), and if her accent often thickens dangerously, her gusto becomes almost unbounded. Richard Hornby, the alternately tearful and sternly moral Gunner, also occasionally lapses from his proper voice (a deadly Cockney whine); but the Peter Sellers mustache and 'onest workman cringe that he adopts are entirely successful--this is compentent character interpretation indeed...
...aeroengine business, which now accounts for 85% of the company's sales. But even the suggestion that Lloyd might destroy the most famed surviving symbol of British craftsmanship won Lord Kindersley some surprising allies. "My heart doesn't bleed for the expense-account set," said one London workman over his nightly pint of bitter, "but if that's what keeps Rolls-Royce going, I'm willing to pay the price...
...Richard Lloyd George, 71, inherited the title but little else from his famed father, lusty Welshman David Lloyd George, Britain's Liberal Prime Minister in World War I. Richard George ran away from it all at an advanced age, spent a decade in the U.S. as "a good workman doing, I hope, a number of different jobs well." He went home to England in 1958. In London's sporty Sunday The People, Dick George (as he was known to his U.S. acquaintances) began telling about father last week in a serialization of a forthcoming biography. His introduction...
...specific cases. Sample: The scalp of a 45-year-old construction laborer, superficially grazed by a swinging hook on the end of a derrick cable, later developed a friable, fungating ulceration. X rays showed "extensive metastatic involvement"; cancer had spread to the head from a primary tumor in the workman's kidney. The cancer had obviously been spreading for months before the accident, and the scalp injury only served to call attention to it. Nevertheless, said Auster, the court granted a "substantial" award...