Inspirations for the Chums of Chance

[David Morris]

I'd say you've found a good candidate.  It does SOUND like the Chums
of Chance," silly and stilted and overly innocent.

On 1/18/07, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> But I really ask myself, given what Pynchon writes in the "Secret
> Integration" about "Aerial Warships" (144) if this one isn't the
> source for the "Chums of Chance":
>
> TOM SWIFT AND HIS AERIAL WARSHIP
> or The Naval Terror of the Seas
>
> BY VICTOR APPLETON
>
> CHAPTER I - TOM IS PUZZLED
>
> "What's the matter, Tom? You look rather blue!"
> "Blue! Say, Ned, I'd turn red, green, yellow, or any other color of
> the rainbow, if I thought it would help matters any."
>
> "Whew!"
> Ned Newton, the chum and companion of Tom Swift, gave vent to a
> whistle of surprise, as he gazed at the young fellow sitting opposite
> him, near a bench covered with strange-looking tools and machinery,
> while blueprints and drawings were scattered about.
> http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/18tom10h.htm
>