Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slender, clean-cut Martin Daniels Jr., 16, had a problem, a pal and a plan. Marty's problem was his father. Martin Daniels Sr.. 35, a shiftless unemployed dockworker. Even in seedy, rough-and-tumble South Philadelphia, where the Daniels family lived in a three-room, $50-a-month apartment, Daniels Sr. was known as a hard-drinking no-good with a long record of arrests-burglary, assault and battery, stabbing, and slugging a cop. He was also rough on Marty, eldest of his six sons-a roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when...
...face turned white when his father snarled: "I don't have a cent left. We were over in Jersey and we had a good time." Telling his mother "I can't stand this any more," the boy got into his car, drove off to find his pal...
Dead Aim. Marty's pal was quiet, tousle-haired Curtis Raymond Edwards, 14, son of a Germantown widow living on social security. As the two boys drove around all night, Marty poured out the troubles he was having with his old man. ended up by saying, "I'm fed up with him. I'm going to get a gun." Ray had won a marksmanship medal at summer camp in 1955-Would he help out? Sure. Young Daniels borrowed a .30-30 Marlin hunting rifle and one cartridge, also picked up a second recruit-Albert Strolis...
...Cuckoo-Land, all falls are not prat. Last week doorknob-bald Cinemidol Yul Brynner looked more dashed than dashing after he tried some Cossack-style horsemanship for MGM's The Brothers Karamazov, swooped too low, fractured a vertebra. And Cinemactress Rita Hayworth kicked up her heels during the Pal Joey shooting, got sent to the showers with a gimpy tendon...
...heard charges that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited $19,500 on the sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals, and received more than $5,000 in trinkets-cameras, washing machines, etc.-from Teamster Pal Nathan Shefferman. The one noticeable ripple in Beck Junior's sea of silence came when John McClellan asked him if he was married. After a nervous giggle and a consultation with his counsel. Beck squeaked no and had another giggle...