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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following were selected by the nominating committee last week: David M. Abbott, William L. Alden, Edward F. Burke, Charles R. Brynteson, James R. Carman, Albert B. Carter, Jr., Daniel A. Cronin, William Curwen, Wilbur M. Davis, Charles W. Detjen, Jerome Gavin, Alfred M. Goodloe, Jr., Bruce Harriman, Frederick D. Houghteling, Howard E. Houston, Amory Houghton, Jr., Frank S. Jones, Edward P. Linehan, David Poskanzer, Walter Raushenbush, John G. Simon, Thomas C. Simons, and Jonathan M. Spivak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seventy Men Nominated to Senior Office | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...flavor has gone from Duffy's mulligan. I always liked Archie [but] I can't say as much for Ed Gardner. How come, he can't pay his share of the taxes like the rest of us . . .? CHUCK ABBOTT Tucson, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Touch and Go (sketches and lyrics by Jean & Walter Kerr; music by Jay Gorney; produced by George Abbott) is that never too common object, a lively topical revue. It has a nice sassy way of cutting up-once or twice, even, into murderously small pieces. But it can be genuinely funny as well as sassy, and it disdains rented jokes and reupholstered sketches. Campus bred,* the show has much more pertness than polish; it tends to slouch around with its socks hanging down, and it has the amateur's faith in the pen to the exclusion of the blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Brimming Cup. In Topsfield, Mass., while trying to sell surplus apples at the local fair, Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Abbott learned that in the apple pie baking contest they had won second and third prizes: eight bushels of apples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...ABBOTT Grand Marais, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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