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President Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 frowned down through dense brown kerosene fumes last night as Eliot Perkins, Master of Lowell House, looked shamefacedly at the bonfire he had started. --Harvard Service News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 12/29/1944 | See Source »

President Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 frowned down through dense brown kerosene fume last night as Elliott Perkins, Master or Lowell House, looked shamefacedly at the bonfire he had started. It all began at the Lowell House Christmas dinner when Perkins lit the traditional Yule log after forgetting to open the draft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze Perks Up Bellboys' Yuletide Dinner Festivities | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

...George Abbott lends his doft directorial touch to striking music by Leonard Hernstein and tingling choreography by Jerome Robbins, in this happy musical comedy about three sailors on a 24-hour leave in New York. "On the Town" dashes dizzily through two acts of mad-cap exuberance with acattered moments of wonderful originality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 12/19/1944 | See Source »

Snafu (by Louis Solomon and Harold Buchman; produced by George Abbott) is kid stuff that will flourish at the box office though it often falters on the stage. Telling of a 15-year-old war hero who is shipped home from the Pacific when his age is discovered, Snafu finds its fun in Ronald's thorny return to civilian life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...into Shibe Park for a jamboree. The hot time was in honor of one Cornelius McGillicuddy, 81, from East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden Jubilee . . . may your score card continue to wave from the dugout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: McGilllcuddy's 50th | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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