Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue-chip cast, all old pros, managed to brush away much of Royal Family's dust. Fredric March, who played Tony, the skirt-chasing screen idol, in both Hollywood and Broadway versions, roared and pranced through the TV adaptation with his old gusto. Helen Hayes, as the family's irascible matriarch, and Claudette Colbert, as the harassed heroine, played warmly and well, supported by the harrumphs of Charles Coburn as the family manager. As a play, Royal Family was not the best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble...
...jeep, a Jaguar and a Lincoln Continental, shared an aluminum boat with Mayor Houk. Marilyn taught basketball to schoolgirls and taught Sunday school at the Methodist church. The busy, popular couple liked bowling, golf, fishing, water skiing and sports-car races. They had one son, Little Sam, or Chip, now nearing seven...
Cleveland detectives noted that the intruder, if any, had left no fingerprints. Chip was not awakened and Koko, the Irish setter, was not heard to bark.* A police time-motion study calculated that Sheppard could have run upstairs in six seconds, and it would have required 40 seconds to strike the 27 blows that had been inflicted on Marilyn's skull. Moreover. Cleveland detectives figured that Marilyn died between 3:10 and 4 a.m. Sheppard phoned to Houk some two hours later. In the meantime, tests disclosed, a trail of blood leading from the bedroom to a basement sink...
Among those conspicuously not present: U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen (vacationing in Western Europe); the U.S. chargé d'affaires, who was invited at the last moment to the reception but not the dinner and declined...
...weight, 180 lbs.; waist, 33 in., chest 43 in. In his sinewy shoulders he still had the power to smash out 300-yard drives; his huge hands still contained the nuances that make chip shots fall where he chooses. He has acquired an ounce of caution-but only an ounce-that may cut a little drama from his game and save him a few Scoreboard points...