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Since Stanislavsky wrote My Life in Art, all sorts of do-or-Dionysians from Tyrone Guthrie to Moss Hart have felt compelled to follow suit. The results are seldom so immortal. Last week George Abbott, the tall, tough and still active bald eagle of Broadway, published Mister Abbott, an account of his own life-all 76 years of it. Since he has been director, producer, writer, actor or plastic surgeon for 103 Broadway shows of all types except the intellectual-Twentieth Century, Room Service, Pal Joey, High Button Shoes, Where's Charley?, Call Me Madam, A Tree Grows...
...System depends basically on the hard running of fullbacks Chuck Mercein and Pete Cummings. The Elis' bread and butter plays this year have been simple fullback dives, quick-openers through the holes made by the two big tackles. These are All-Ivy Perry Wickstrom, and a 240-pounder named Abbott Lawrence, who sounds like he came from an Old Harvard family even if his home is Portland...
...Cabot Abbott Hofstadter '65 looked up from his copy of Playboy yesterday morning when he felt his bed shake under him. "Probably an earthquake," he giggled, but since his bed was still securely resting on the eighth floor of Leverett Towers the junior returned to his magazine...
...BOYS FROM SYRACUSE. Plautus does it again, this time with the added tinkering of Shakespeare, George Abbott, and Rodgers and Hart. Apart from being a tuneful comic delight, the show contains an adorable and gifted cutie named Julienne Marie...
...Many Languages. The chief U.S. advocate for the common Bible is Oxford-educated Father Walter Abbott, feature editor of the Jesuit weekly America. Abbott hopes to win the approval of U.S. Catholic bishops for a scholarly translation now being prepared for Doubleday's Anchor Books by more than 30 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars under the general editorship of David Noel Freedman, a Presbyterian, of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and William F. Albright, a Methodist, of Johns Hopkins.* Jesuit Corbishley argues that Britain's still incomplete New English Bible could easily be modified for Catholic use; other Catholic scholars...