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...loyalty to his old gang was a rock on which his marriage nearly foundered. To please one pal, he sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
...workers and chain-store sell-outs ... [their] ideas pure Technicolor." There were also remittance-men, wanderers and drunks: "nice people . . . rich in leisure, meditation and gamy breaths" (see cut, p. 91; the drawings are Longstreet's). There was a fine old fellow whom he calls Proust's Pal (he had known Marcel quite well) who talked old-fashioned purple epigrams about books, homosexuality and English cooking. There were also Pamela Cohn, who thought of joining the Catholic Church but passed it up on a chance to meet Aldous Huxley, and a charming character called...
...British Raj sighed and announced that Dr. Satya Pal, hitherto a vehement nationalist, resigned from Saint Gandhi's Congress and volunteered to tend British wounded...
Married. Leila Ernst, 21, Pal Joey ingenue; and Bostonian Stacy B. Hulse Jr., recent Harvard graduate; in Manhattan...
...office, the Sparrow nevertheless refused to budge. One evening a Nazi guard stopped him at the gate, told him curfew had long since rung. Said the Sparrow: "Where do you get that stuff?" and kept going. The guard called a Nazi officer. But the officer, too, was an "old pal"-they had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. So together he and the Sparrow toured what was left of the old "thirst emporiums...