Word: chums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...
...give the case a final fillip, the defense couldn't find one of its witnesses, 19-year-old Grace Appel, an old East Side chum of Pat Ward (who was born Sandra Wisotsky). Not until the opposing lawyers had delivered their summations did Miss Appel appear in court, convoyed by Columnist Walter Winchell, who had thoughtfully extracted an exclusive interview before persuading her to come out of hiding. Unfortunately for the defense (and for Winchell), however, "Mystery Witness" Appel had nothing much to say, the chief mystery being why the defense had bothered to call...
...Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes as a writer. His account of the trip to Nepal, the organization of the expedition, and the search for a route up the mountain sometimes reads like a boy camper's letter to a chum. It is a tribute to the pure terror of his experiences after victory that his writing then takes on the intensity of his subject...
BILLY made his own "decision for Christ" at 16, as a lanky farm boy in Charlotte, N.C., who played first base for the local semi-pro team and dreamed of the big leagues. One night, during the invitation at a revival, Billy nudged a school chum in the ribs and stage-whispered: "Pal, I'm goin'." Billy went all the way: he began to study for the ministry. He went to the St. Petersburg Bible Institute in Florida, then Illinois' Wheaton College (where he met his wife), then accepted a pastorate in Western Springs...
...plot is less up to date: a hard-hitting attorney (Edmond O'Brien), in the course of investigating a big-city crime syndicate, discovers that his policeman father (Tom Tully) is mixed up with the gangsters. Further complications set in when O'Brien's chum, Reporter William Holden, falls in love with the attorney's girl friend (Alexis...