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...result of his wound, he still wears an aluminum kneecap, grafted bonebits here and there, as well as a score of body scars. (A deep scar on his forehead is not war-gotten, but the mark of a bathroom skylight that fell on him.) He claims to have learned more about war from his post-War reporting of battles in the Near East than he ever did through his own soldiering. This reporting was done for the Toronto Star in the early '20s. Hemingway was by that time married (to Hadley Richardson, childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established...
Later he was looking at himself in the bathroom mirror. "You know, Vaggy, you're not a bad looking guy. Right now all spruced up like that you remind me of the Yard. Funny, they spend all Spring getting that Yard fixed up for the graduates to see when they come back. Why are the alumni so important at Commencement" Perhaps, it's because they're going to give us some money...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
Four hundred and fifty feet of film pass, during which time the Doctor catalogues the position and character (Announcer: "Observe, please, that each quintuplet has a different personality." This is said triumphantly.) of all but the nurses. By some miracle the last scene arrives--a return to the bathroom scene, but this time only the bathtub can be seen. Four supple bodies are being launched by the nurses into the water...
...over two blocks and has twelve wings to insure outside light to every office, he invited Washington newshawks in to view its wonders as soon as he got himself seated in his oak-paneled office. To his chagrin the newshawks decided that the wonder of wonders was his private bathroom with giddy blue tile walls, a tub which they described as "not quite big enough for a swim," a bath mat embroidered with a brown donkey and the confident inscription: "We are here to stay...