Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes, 13 4-5 seconds. Second was Robert Jay of Harvard, who lost in a final hundred-yard spurt with Igo. The first ten Freshman finishers are James Igo (BU), Robert Jay (H), George Byrom (BU), John Sopka (H), William Dias (H), Charles Robins (H), W.H. Young (H), Abbott Fenn (H), Tom McElligott (H), Richard Herlihy...
That even the ridiculous has a limit is proved by the latest farce of the Marx brothers, "Room Service," an exact copy of the George Abbott stage production of the same name. The boys do not seem at home with their gags; the timing misses, the efforts used to get laughs are often strained. There is no hilarious sequence like that of the stateroom in "A Night at the Opera." In truth, the brothers seem awed by the fact that they are in a picture bought, not built, for their talents...
After the first day of match play, in which favorite Charley Yates and four of his Walker Cup teammates were swept out of the tournament by dark horses, Spectator Vines was still hanging around. For Pat Abbott was the dark horse who had eliminated Walker Cupper Ray Billows, runner-up to Johnny Goodman in last year's championship...
...socialite Dick Chapman, who took a nip of whiskey out of a Coca-Cola bottle after every hole, kept the gallery in suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated Charley Yates the first day; 27-year-old Dick Chapman, who had competed in five previous...
...After Abbott disposed of Chapman, and Turnesa eliminated Kingsley, Ellsworth Vines found himself basking in the fame of his traveling companion, who had theretofore been a comparative unknown in spite of the fact that he had won the National Public Links championship two years ago. The gallery of 3,000, who turned out for the final, made "Little Willie" the sentimental favorite. They all knew that he was the son of an Italian greenskeeper, that his six brothers had chipped in to put him through Holy Cross, insisted that he become a gentleman golfer and made him remain an amateur...