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Last night, 75 residents of Eliot House elected Ben F. Abbott '96 and John M. Malleis '96 the new co-chairs of the house committee...
Another dorm crew worker, John J. Abbott '96, said it is ironic that although first-years often try things their parents would object to, students ultimately focus on appearances. "The thing they're concerned about is the clean rug," Abbott said. "Forget the tattoo or the boyfriend...
...became the Forties and the Fifties, and there were movies with people with names like Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Bob Hope and Marilyn Monroe, Abbott and Costello. And there were movies called "Abbott and Costello Meet the Werewolf," of which the less said the better. And then there was Ed Wood, who was funny when he didn't mean to be. And then there was Billy Wilder, with movies like "Some Like it Hot"--thank Heaven...
Broadway, that fabulous invalid, never looked frailer or more gallant, never seemed more aware of its glorious past and its tenuous future, than on Tony Award night this past June. Musty old plays and musicals hogged the spotlight from newer works. Producer George Abbott, 106 years old and looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories...
...celebrates great hitters like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, great characters like Casey Stengel and Rube Waddell (who had to be restrained from chasing fire engines during games), great disasters like the Merkle Boner and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. It gives us Red Barber's famous radio calls, Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine and more versions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game than you imagined were possible. For baseball lovers it's the World Series, All-Star Game and Fan Appreciation Day rolled into one, with all the hot dogs and frosty malts...