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...topics of the day with a dry wit and sometimes sharp thrust. Universally liked around the White House, he carefully addresses Kennedy as "Mr. President," just as carefully avoids horning in on any serious matters of state. His invariable greeting for even the stuffiest White House visitor is "Hi, pal." As he rode through the streets of Paris in a motorcade after meeting Charles de Gaulle, Powers waved to the crowd and shouted: "Comment alley-voos, pal...
...Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, who had first been smitten by Ceezee when he saw a picture of her and wangled himself an introduction. Before their marriage in 1947, at the Havana plantation of his longtime hunting pal Ernest Hemingway, Guest bought Ceezee's picture out of the barroom, for a mere 15,000 pesos...
Political Pals. In war, the Guard is controlled by the Pentagon; in peacetime, although the Federal Government pays for 97% of its budget, it is primarily a state-organized fighting force under control of the Governor, who is the commander in chief of the units in his state. He appoints his own adjutant general, often a political pal with a sketchy military background...
...greying grandmother as an interloper in a man's world. Years away from her reputation as the town's best crime reporter, she still keeps up a running dialogue with the underworld that helps her paper to impressive scoops. It was Aggie to whom her pal Mickey Cohen gave the Johnny Stompanato-Lana Turner love letters...
...film is a western in spirit and setting but not in theme. Kirk Douglas plays a weatherbeaten cowpoke with mighty few cows left to poke. He is a loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time off his friend's two-year sentence. But the pal has been tamed by a wife and child, and Douglas makes...