Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sidewalks, the rooftops, the chestnut trees, the shop windows and the people. Passers-by suspected him of being a lunatic or even a spy. Artier photographers ridiculed him as a crackpot and tasteless hack. Among the few to appreciate his work as time went by was U.S. Photographer Berenice Abbott...
Last week Photographer Abbott, who bought up the photographs and plates Atget left behind at his death in 1927, was displaying 200 of the best of them at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Atget's 30 years of patient trudging and clicking added up to a splendid historical document of a yesterday Paris...
...Abbott & Costello
...dollar reserves are now brimming over the $1,680,000,000 mark, more than three times what Canada had on hand in 1947, when she put the lid down on U.S. travel and imports. "We are sufficiently sure of our ability to pay our bills," said Finance Minister Douglas Abbott. "We don't need protective measures...
...second prizewinner, Rhys Caparn, 41, models nothing but animals. Her Animal Form, an inquisitive mammal with only a suggestion of a head and a pelt flecked with green and gilt, was derived from wild cattle she saw at the Bronx Zoo. The remaining prizes went to Chicagoan Abbott Pattison for his robot-like Striding Man and to Pennsylvanian Joseph Greenberg for a sturdy but graceful...