Word: chumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball team (the San Diego Padres) and became head of a financial empire that included one of California's largest banks and a multimillion-dollar conglomerate with interests that ranged from hotels, real estate and insurance to tuna-fishing fleets, canneries and a commuter airline. He became the chum of a President, so close to Richard Nixon that the two watched the 1968 election returns together on television. He was so respected in his hometown that a local newspaper once dubbed him "Mr. San Diego of the Century...
...script makes several errors of fact. For one, Wilbur never had a gosling chum named Jeffrey. I can also assure you that Charlotte was far too intelligent a lady ever to say "Chin up, chin up, everybody loves a happy face," much less sing it, as she is made to do here. Last and most important, I do not have a wife and family. I do have a more than adequate social life, one that I am hoping Mr. White will write about one day. If he ever does, I will keep a careful eye on the movie sales...
...DICK CAVETT show is a more comfortable forum than Lowell Lecture Hall and we live with the consequences of that. If John Kenneth Galbraith would rather chum around Gstaad with William Buckley, that's his choice, but students at Harvard are unlikely to learn as much from him as they might from someone who spent on occasional winter in Cambridge...
...thing to really condemn or praise, but as Tom Brown, Anthony Murphy manages the very difficult task of not jarring any preconceived notions about what Tom should be like that someone who's read the book might bring to the program. He and Simon Turner, who plays Tom's chum, Ned East, are both remarkably unmannered and seem very comfortable in their roles...
...fleet of vintage cars, old houses and cute hints in the dialogue ("You don't want to start World War II, do you?") are supposed to provide period authenticity. Only '30s Star Joan Blondell really does, in a too-brief cameo as Banyon's matronly chum. But even here the show blows its own cover. Forster finds Blondell huddled over her wooden radio, tearfully listening to the abdication speech of Edward VIII. It is a neat trick. Edward abdicated a year before the series is supposed to take place...