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...middle-income stockbroker, Prince entered the theater at 20 as an odd-job boy for Director George Abbott, got a lot of tips and contacts from him. When he was 25, Prince and another Abbott aide, the late Robert Griffith, bought an option on a book called 7½?, hired writers and composers, then went out to raise cash in backers' auditions staged in the living rooms of friends. While four chorus girls warbled songs, Prince recited the story line and passed around a fifth of Scotch, a bag of potato chips and a ballpoint pen for prospective angels...
Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, has refused to teach at the University of Texas because of the university's demand that he sign on oath disclaiming membership in the Communist Party and other subversive organizations...
...Kennedys'-have produced quite so exotic a cast of supporters and swingers. Among the Lindsay helpers were Actor Henry Fonda, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jose Torres (a Puerto Rican), Singers Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli and Ethel Merman, Authors Norman Mailer and Paddy Chayefsky, Broadway Producers George Abbott and Hal Prince, ex-Baseball Star Jackie Robinson and Boxer Suear Ray Robin son, Comedienne Phyllis Diller and CORE Leader James Farmer...
Given a one-joke script, Director George Abbott whipped it into a happy frenzy that survived for three seasons on Broadway. Movie Director Bud Yorkin borrows bits of Abbott's inventiveness, but his own method is to linger over a gag until all the life has run out of it. He belabors a drunk scene, overestimates the humor in the plight of Ford's married but childless daughter (Connie Stevens) who browbeats her callow husband (Jim Hutton) into orgies of planned parenthood. There is something unwholesomely prudish about a hip young modern who greets the revelation...
...plan of the pavilion introduces an architectural innovation. Designed by Sherman Morss '33, of Shepley, Richardson, Bulfinch, and Abbott, the architects of Leverett Towers and Quincy House, the boathouse will be attached to a floating barge. The unique construction will enable the combined structure to rise and fall with the level of the Charles River...