Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles C. Abbott '28, professor of Business Economics, has been appointed Edmund Cogawell Converse Professor of Banking and Finance at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean Donald K. David announced yesterday. The appointment is effective July...
...Abbott, who has been a full professor since 1946, received his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard. An instructor in Economics at the College from 1931 to 1937 he became an assistant professor at the Business School in 1937 and an associate professor...
Among the books Abbott has written are "Rise of the Business Corporation," "The New York Bond Market, 1920-1930," and "Financing Business During the Transition...
...against four film companies last January, moviemakers have hesitated to fire suspected Communists. But keeping suspects on the payroll means boycotts and box-office trouble: e.g., Industry Spokesman Eric Johnston this week is trying to placate the American Legion, which is objecting to pictures ranging from Detective Story to Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, because Communist suspects worked on them. But RKO Boss Hughes didn't seem to mind trouble...
Tired but Happy. The readings have given a healthy push to Laughton's career. He is signed for at least four new movies (including one with Abbott & Costello), and this week begins a new radio series for the American Medical Association. He has enough reading projects to keep him busy for a decade. He intends to find time for another assault on Shakespeare : his great ambition is to do a really bang-up performance of King Lear, but he doesn't yet feel ready for the part. Tentatively scheduled for this fall is another reading tour based...