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...years, Abbott Lawrence Lowell guided the destinies of Harvard University. That quarter-century followed the now legendary administration of Charles William Eliot, whose genius and labor transformed this institution from a relatively insignificant college to a leader in American education. President Lowell combined continued progress with the necessary stabilization and conservatism to place Harvard in the fore-front of the nation's universities. In re-emphasizing the college as the lifegiving core of the University, he raised academic standards, instituted the tutorial system and the teaching fellowships, the House plan and the integration of Freshmen. He instilled the mass...
Movie exhibitors reported that the cinemactor who had made them the most money in 1942 was a team: (Bud) Abbott & (Lou) Costello. The boisterous comics shouldered out boisterous Mickey Rooney, who slipped to fourth in the poll after leading it for three years. Second biggest moneymaker has been in the Army five months-Clark Gable, one of the top ten ever since the poll was first taken eleven years ago. Gary Cooper ran third. Newcomer to the golden gang: golden Betty Grable, who ran eighth...
...year-old Committee for a Jewish Army, headed by aggressive Journalist Pierre Van Paassen (Days of Our Years, That Day Alone), found more than 1,500 distinguished citizens eager to sign its plea: they ranged from Episcopalian Bishop H. P. Almon Abbott to Sculptor William Zorach. At a dinner in Manhattan last week, about 1,000 of them applauded speeches which demanded immediate formation of the Army-made up of European refugees and Jews of Palestine and the Middle East-and criticized U.S. and British official delay...
...Abbott declares: It must be rigor mortis...
...Done It? may allow even the most thoroughly mesmerized Abbott & Costello subject to slip from his trance...