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DIED. GEORGE ABBOTT, 107, playwright, director, producer; in Miami Beach, Florida. Abbott was easily Broadway's longest-running hit-from a $45-a-week turn as a soused college student in 1913's The Misleading Lady to the rethinking of his 1955 box-office smash Damn Yankees for its current revival. In between were well over 100 productions in which George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked...
...despite editors' efforts to stock up ahead of time, John J. Abbott '96 admitted that the food supply in the castle was dwindling...
...losing weight, but mainly to disprove that fat equals funny," said Abbott, offering the first of several clues that there might be more to the exile than might at first appear...
...were sick of being oppressed by Harvard students, and I think we've sent a message," Abbott said...
When asked about his plans for next year, Abbott said he envisaged no huge changes...