Word: chums
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...England's royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway...
Into the Indian community of Teawhit, on the coast of Washington, comes young Jerrod Tobin, whose family moved there in the late 1940s to open a store. An endlessly fascinating playground is revealed to him by his Indian chum, Buckety, who first greets him: "We can be brothers and cross ourselves with clam juice and chicken blood to prove it." Woven into the boys' Huck Finn adventures is a darker tale of the Indians' past. From his grandfather, Jerrod learns of the Indians' once robust life, of how they hunted whales in canoes and dragged the carcasses...
...junior quarterback who conspicuously lacks his trade's traditional egotism. Says he: "I consider myself just adequate." More remarkable still, Schloredt has only one good eye: as a boy back in Moorcroft, Wyo., he lost 90% of the vision of his left eye when a chum exploded a firecracker in a bottle...