Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, Hugh O'Brian, Hugh Downs, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Phil Silvers, Hal March, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano. Kyle Rote. Charley Conerly. Frank Gifford, James A. Farley. Jackie Gleason could not make it, but he sent a mass of fall flowers and a pal's salutation, which began: "Dear Clam Head...
...that keeps them going when they don't find it." He has a huge vocabulary, which sometimes slices into the rough. "Don't misconcept this," he will say, or "That guy is a man of great introspect." But his favorite adjective is "beautiful," his favorite noun is "pal," and his favorite phrase is "beautiful, pal, beautiful...
With the show-biz-sporting crowd that collects there. Gleason stands around at the bar, communicating in the limited vocabulary of the milieu: "Pal," "Bum," "Tomato." and "Har-de-har-har." Jackie compares Shor's to "the corner candy store when you were a kid, except instead of Jujubes you've got the booze." The famous story is true that Gleason and the 240-lb. Shor once raced each other around the block, running in opposite directions. Gleason was standing coolly at the bar when Shor puffed in. Gleason had used a cab. but Shor, whose giant brain...
Shor got his revenge one night when he introduced Gleason to "Mr. Joe Shu-man," explaining that Shuman was a dress manufacturer from Philadelphia and an old Shor pal. Shuman confided that in his spare time he sometimes liked to shoot a little pool. Gleason prides himself on shooting an excellent stick in his own right, and always has (at the age of 13, he became the pool champion of his neighborhood in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, upholding the honor and petty bets of the Irish kids against the Italian champion "from up the hill"). He invited Shuman...
RING OF BRIGHT WATER, by Gavin Maxwell. A lyric bouquet in memory of the best pal the author ever had-a lovable, rubbery otter named Mij, who could clown like a dog, slink like a cat, and swim better than anything else that ever got wet. Maxwell respects his old friend's dignity, and never allows his recollections to become cute...