Word: pal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy to vote Democratic next fall. But where can McCarthy's followers go? Politically, Joe is expendable, and the time to spend him appears to have come. This week Secretary of State Dulles made a start by taking authority over State Department personnel away from McCarthy's pal, R. W. Scott McLeod, the Department's security officer...
...spectacularly in a chauffeur-driven Cadillac), skipped all but one stint at guard duty, goofed off on target practice and kept hinting darkly that he was really only hanging around to check morale. Snooping on his own, Columnist Drew Pearson had reported that Schine's old junketeering gumshoe pal, McCarthy Aide Roy Cohn, called the commandant often to inquire about Schine's welfare: "The Senator wants to know." This week Schine still seemed to be a soldier of good fortune. Most of his Company K comrades were in advanced infantry training. But Draftee Schine's eagle eyes...
...upset the mutual trust one dark night by firing a revolver into a pile of saucepans that hung above the sleeping poet's pillow. In so far as he ever does, Gogarty blames himself for not having noted at the time "the latent lunacy" of his pistol-shy pal; but he explains that "it is one thing to study lunacy in an asylum, another . . . to recognize it in a friend...
Died. "Uncle Don" Carney (real name: Howard Rice), 68, famed radio pal of small fry from the late '20s to the mid-'40s, whose daily flow of cheery songs, birthday announcements and sugary advice (on such problems as nail biting, gulping, temper) earned him as much as $90,000 a year before blood-and-thunder adventure serials forced him to make his living as a disc jockey* (1947); of a heart ailment; in Miami...
Soon Rose's job brings her to a Main Line mansion, and the Main Liners parade in their native habitat: Hume's father, a Victorian-minded patriarch who has always acted like a father "and not that odious distortion called a 'pal' "; Hume's mother, a forthright, witty woman with unpredictable ideas whose ironic attitude toward inheritance taxes is: "We'd be better off if we could take the taxes and let the government have the inheritance"; Hume's nephew, who wants a job to prove that, despite his wealth...