Word: chums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oust him. Three months later, the state supreme court upheld the mayor, but by then Inman had become too entrenched a figure to be removed. Instead, Jackson made an appointment to a new charter-created post above police chief-commissioner of public safety. He chose an old college chum, Reginald Eaves, a black who had served as Boston's penal commissioner...
Bertha Cohen died in 1965, leaving no will and few close relatives. A distant nephew was named executor of the estate after a five-year court battle and he quickly disposed of the property on the open market. Harvard and developer Max Wasserman, a close friend and high school chum of Eddie Crane's, both bid on the property, with Wasserman coming out the winner...
Music Everywhere. Throughout all this, only the music has been a constant. Getting into a school chum's rec ord collection, Jim puts on a Buddy Holly album with more eagerness than he has shown except when he left home...
Another Stanford chum says of Plunkett, "He always has struck me as being more boring than exciting. He's a really shy, edgy guy. But he's loosened up a lot within the past few years...
...even realize that the vendors were organized, the vision of a union representative added a note of surprise and legitimacy to the proceedings. But to those who knew that the vendors were really members of Local 232 of the Bartenders, Waitresses and Concessionaires International, the revelation that this chum in a $150 pressed suit with color coordinated shoes, was actually "one of us" was even more of a shocker...