Word: abbotts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...naming it for the Lowell family which had been close to Harvard since the 18th century. But then House master Julian Coolidge on his own got hold of the right people." Above the iron work in the main gate, he weaved, very covertly, the initials 'ALL" for President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. All the time he never dared asked Lowell if he noticed it. (Of course, Perkins adds parenthetically, Lowell must have noticed it because he noticed everything.) "Mr. Lowell was perfectly capable of having the initials removed." But he never did and they remain there today...
...Best Seller List, he spent the next 15 years churning out a seemingly endless series of high-priced sequels, which lacking better titles might just as well have been called Son of Advise and Consent, Return of Advise and Consent and so on ad nauseum. But by the time Abbott and Costello Meet Advise and Consent hit the bookstores two years ago, the public seemed to be growing weary of the sport. So Drury settled on what was his first "original" of the decade: an historical novel about politics in ancient Egypt. He clothed his Secretary of State...
...nearly two years of bitter feuds made Harrington and McGee more amenable to a coldly intellectual, non-backslapping Governor. As State Sen. James Kelly, Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee noted last week, "The unacceptability of the Governor's style is settled." But more importantly, as John Abbott, Harrington's press aide noted, Dukakis no longer considers himself the "sole repository of all wisdom and knowledge...
William M. Lipscomb Jr., Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, spoke to a packed Science Center audience of 400 Saturday on his Nobel Prize-winning research in borane chemistry...
Incidentally, the Yale-Dartmouth game made it into your living room only because St. Lawrence coach Leon Abbott did not want his "overmatched" Larries to be seen on TV against powerhouse BU. The natural result of that move was a big upset of one of the nation's top ten teams...