Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian Government decided to forgive & forget. In the House of Commons last week Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that henceforth the Dominion's 15,858 draft-dodgers, absentees and deserters would be exempt from arrest or prosecution. There was one exception : the order would not apply to absentees and deserters who are still overseas. To anti-conscription Quebec the amnesty brought immense relief: most of the delinquents hiding out at home are Quebeckers...
...heads already rolled in the sawdust. Top men on Radio Row had decided that the public was fed up with straight gag shows, wanted its humor coated with a story. So off the air went Danny Kaye ("too arty"), and off went Cass Daley (whose Hooper rating had skidded). Abbott & Costello hoped to save themselves with a new routine...
Chairman of the society's research committee is famed Psychologist Gardner Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...
International's good fortune began when the Government ordered the industry to give up the monopolistic practice of block booking (TIME, June 24). Shorn of the chance to peddle its potboiling B pictures, Universal was left with only two A-makers, Deanna Durbin and Abbott & Costello, to service its outlets...
Roger wistfully returned to the East Coast, went to Harvard, married Helen Abbott from Brooklyn and dreamed of the West. He worked in his family's several large shipping firms, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, suffered a gassing and temporary blindness, served on Hoover's Food Board. Uncle George died. Five years later Roger Lapham became president of A-H and moved permanently to the city he had always dreamed about...