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...Chum Steele may be the key to Harvard's chances for a good or great year. At times, as against Princeton last year, he is as good as any player on the team; he is undoubtedly the best doubles player with his blazing serve and big game. With Princeton’s Keith Jennings, he is ranked tenth nationally in men's doubles...
...dinner party of two couples. The dim hostess, Nora, "made a point of calling her husband's employees by first names, trying to make them part of a family which she alone, perhaps, would have liked to exist." Her more earthy guest, Eileen Wheeler, had been a school chum. "She had tried to tell Nora one or two things, but Nora did not want to hear. Oh, no, no, please, Eileen, Nora cried. As though a boy had been twisting her arm. She had those long, entreating, sensitive hands. And there they were still. Twisting together, making their excuses...
...witnesses have ever encountered," is the way Circuit Judge Rodney S. Eielson described William G. Alpert, 20, of Darien, Conn., at last month's trial and conviction of 19-year-old Michael Smith for negligent homicide in the car-crash death of Nancy Hitchings. Alpert, Smith's chum at Norwalk Community College, a night school, had volunteered vivid descriptions of staggering drunkenness at the debutante party that preceded the fatal accident. He himself did not drink, said Alpert, airily explaining: "I have no need to dull my senses...
...then decides rather casually to turn to his ne'er-do-well chum (Jean-Paul Belmondo...
Gassman's Roman rakes include: 1) a dolt who goes home with a prostitute and finds that she is married to an old school chum; 2) a sodden playboy whose haymate, ample Antonella Lualdi, tumbles out of bed just in time to get dressed for her wedding; 3) an impatient Lothario who checks into a motel and seduces the chambermaid while his peevish girl friend waits in the car; 4) a barkeep who saves carfare by hitching a ride home every night with a car-couching whore, hops out at his front door feeling cheap but chaste...