Word: abbott
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Slow Torture. Now a lieutenant colonel, Abbott Harrington Burns was only a month away from a construction clerk's job with an Arizona telephone company when he was assigned to a Fire Direction Center team at Fort Sill, Okla., in mid-November 1940. In self-defense against slow torture from intricate mathematics, Harry Burns one night experimented with a homemade paper slide rule. Most officers were unimpressed. But one major, George V. Keyser (now a brigadier commanding the 74th Field Artillery in Mississippi), saw the potentialities of Burns's Graphical Firing Table...
Blondie, in the co-feature, "It's A Great Life" has her domestic troubles in the form of one equus caballus. If the directors are willing, why not put Abbott and Costello, the Hardy Family, and Blondie all in one picture to put an end to the long line of screwball productions which that California city has been tossing out in increasing numbers...
...they are hired to pull into shape. But sometimes it takes a lot of pulling. Fats Waller, for example, gave Walker little more than some snatches of melody jotted on the backs of a couple of envelopes. But sometimes apparent trouble is easy to solve. While working on George Abbott's Best Foot Forward, Walker was approached by Gene Kelly, who staged the dances for the show. Kelly had definite ideas. Roared he: "The orchestra should go de-bump-bump-bump, wha-ah, crash, zip, bang, de-bump, de-bump, bzzzz, wham!" It's got to be terrific...
...Universal) is Abbott & Costello's eleventh time around in the movies. There is every indication from most audiences that sheer, unspecialized hokum continues to have a power of appeal rivaling that of Mozart or the Gettysburg Address...
During reading period, on January 5, Harvard's President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77, died...