Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's Finance Minister Douglas Abbott is financially embarrassed again. But it is the kind of embarrassment that other finance ministers would gladly endure. At the start of Canada's fiscal year, Abbott had predicted a surplus of $9,000,000. But last week, at the end of only the first quarter, he already had a surplus of more than...
Frank Strong, captain of the '49 varsity, and Ted Reynolds, a member of the 1956 Jayvees, are entering in a pair-carried shell without a cox, and Pete Holler and Gordie Abbott are entering in a double scull. These four have been proctoring all spring out of Weld Boathouse. A pair has two men, each with one ear. A double scull holds two men, each with two ears...
Died. Charles Fulton Oursler, 59, best-selling author (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written), newspaper columnist ("A Modern Parable" in 65 papers), playwright (The Spider), whodunit writer (under the pseudonym Anthony Abbott), editor in chief (1931-42) of Liberty magazine, editorial, boss (1941) of all Macfadden Publications, and (since 1944) a senior editor of Reader's Digest; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once an agnostic, Oursler visited Palestine in 1935 and wrote A Skeptic in the Holy Land ("I started out being very skeptical, but in the last chapter I was nearly converted"). Eight...
...mile mark, and rated perfectly by Veteran Jockey Conn McCreary, long-striding Blue Man collared horse after horse and won, going away, by 3½ lengths. Time for the mile and three-sixteenths: 1:57.4, good enough to snag the $86,135 winner's purse for Owner Arthur Abbott, a Rye, N.Y. ice-cream maker and former minor-league ballplayer. With Kentucky Derby Winner Hill Gail out of action with an ankle ailment, 1952's Triple Crown is already split. But Blue Man's showing puts him near the head of the class. ¶ The Navy crews...
Conga Line. Whatever Desi had, it was something the public liked. He began beating a conga drum in Miami and soon nightclub audiences, from Florida to New York, were forming conga lines behind him. His good looks and unquenchable good humor interested Producer George Abbott, who was searching for a Latin type to play a leading role in Too Many Girls. "Can you act?" asked Abbott. "Act?" answered Desi, expansively. "All my life...