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Washington Square (14 alternate Sundays, 4 p.m., E.S.T., NBC) casts Bolger as friend or nursemaid to such village regulars as Comedienne Elaine Stritch, Singer Kay Armen, Comic Arnold Stang, and such one-shot shimmers from uptown as Martha Raye, Abbott & Costello. The première was overplotted and a little cluttered ("It was all we could do to find who belonged in the Square and who didn't," Bolger confessed). But with less emphasis on a running story-which tripped Bolger in his filmed TV efforts-and more on the infectious didos of its star, the show...
...show. What has too often happened is that a truly unconventional kind of man has been exploited for an utterly conventional kind of farce. For most of what takes place, The Happiest Millionaire did not need an Anthony J. Drexel Biddle; it needed only a farce mixmaster like George Abbott. Frequently, for that matter, it still does...
...Farnsworth displayed the sketches, drawn by the University's regular architects, Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, in his office yesterday. He explained that once funds were available, final plans would take another six months to prepare and construction an additional 15 to 18 months...
...enchanting evenings as Ethel Merman in Happy Hunting, with a book by Life With Father's Howard Lindsay-Russel Grouse; Li'l Abner, based on Al Capp's comic strip, with songs by Johnny Mercer; Pay the Piper by George (Damn Yankees, The Pa jama Game) Abbott, based on Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. Three other musicals will star such topnotch musicomedy personalities as Nancy Walker, Judy Holliday, Bert Lahr...
Died. Ab Jenkins, 73, bronzed, white-haired iron man of auto endurance trials (his last record: 118.37 m.p.h. for 24 hours in a stock Pontiac-TIME, July 9), onetime mayor (1940-44) of Salt Lake City (before he took office he changed his name legally from David Abbott to Ab, to twit critics who said he needed more dignity); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Among Ab Jenkins' unbroken records: 200 miles at 195.85 m.p.h., 1,000 miles at 172.83 m.p.h., 3,000 miles at 165.76 m.p.h...