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...fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman, he had been an eager overachiever. Now he was cutting his favorite class because it was just too far to walk. The only thing he really hungered for was a sense of cool. Like his buddy, Chum Breed, a shadowy man who wore elbow patches on brand-new jackets, and pooh-poohed nearly everything. You name it, and old Chum Breed had done it-from sniffing airplane glue at 14 to surfing at La Jolla. Breed even smelled different somehow. Like a faint whiff of short circuits...
...exploration vehicle is the Faust theme, which is a pretty striking and typically offbeat Mersey gimmick. Fist (Faust) makes a deal with Chum (Me-phisto), who offers Fist the chance to experience "breakthroughs." All he wants in return is a 26-week option, subject to renewal, on Fist's inmost primeval soul. Oddly enough, when he first steps into the world as the Devil's man, Fist doesn't change much. He starts cutting classes carefreely, naturally. But it is some time before he even gets around to going to a motel with a pretty young high...
Nettling Truth. Eventually it begins to dawn on young Fist that, despite his unholy deal, he is as dissatisfied and disorganized as ever. Chum Breed tries to remedy that by feeding him a capsule of LSD. Fist kicks his inhibitions to tatters and even makes a nightmarish descent into Hell. That does it. When he recovers, Fist breaks his contract with the Devil and gladly opts for "the real world, crummy...
...them was Washington Attorney Wayne L. Bromley, 37, a Baker chum since the days when both were young Senate pages. The indictment charged that Bromley had been Bobby's tax screen, receiving as "legal fees" $37,000 from Baker clients in 1963-64. Most of this, the grand jury found, ended up as cash in Baker's pockets. The scheme became so routine, however, that Baker began ignoring his pal altogether and having "a person other than Wayne L. Bromley" endorse the checks. Bromley was one of the grand jury's key witnesses and, though...
...much was doled out to script writers. You'll have to watch to really get into the mode, but the lines are spoken almost as if they were still within the white balloons. Impossible speeches like Robin's "Holy ashtray!!!" and his mentor's "You've done it again, chum," should not come off, but undeniably, they do. Credit must be given to West and Ward, but some mention should be made of the superb direction. Someone must have read a lot of comic books...