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...telling Lassie's 25 million viewers (most of them young, all faithful) that there were going to be some new faces around the famous old farm. The chief newcomer, Jon Provost, 7, was eased into the filmed series 13 weeks before as Lassie's new chum Timmy; this week's episode introduced Timmy's foster parents (Cloris Leachman and Jon Shepodd) for the first time. Gone after three years was Lassie's old playmate Jeff (Tommy Rettig), who in reel life had to go off to high school, but in real life had outgrown...
...high-school days in Budapest, Teller was, as he puts it today, a "square" (pronounced, in his thick accent, "skvare"). Favorite amusements were chess, hiking, poetry and music. Among the subjects of his poems was a chum's brainy, grey-eyed younger sister, Mici (pronounced Mitzi), who shared young Teller's enthusiasm for mathematics and that special Hungarian passion, pingpong. Eventually they were married...
...late starter in baseball. The local high school had no team, so Lew-or "Froggy" as the kids nicknamed him after his voice began to change-filled in his days holding a cue at the Idle Hour Pool Room or heaving rocks through windows. "One night," recalled an old chum in Nitro last week, "a gang of us were knocking out windows in the Nazarene Church. Lew was half a block behind us, standing in a creek, and hitting them as regularly as any of us. The police-nabbed us boys up close to the church, put us in jail...
...Marquand's heroes. Helen Howe's heroine discovers (surprise!) that success is not enough. Her husband comes home from the war dreaming of a Japanese mistress. Her daughter turns from Maggie to a tweedy aunt and the earthy delights of raising sheep dogs. An old school chum, who had stayed home all these years having babies, gains fame as a poet. Alone and unanchored. Maggie would like to believe she is simply paying the price for having lived too hard, "but fear gripped her suddenly that she had not lived...
...woman be a chum...