Word: abe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...departure highlighted a-general trend in Washington: many another able man had left since the end of the war, and for the same reason (Oscar Cox, Albert Browning, Abe Fortas, Daniel W. Bell, et aL). Congress was making motions towards raising its own salaries. The same would soon have to be done for administrative offices...
...Business Too Big? (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Financial Writer Merryle S. Rukeyser, Congressman George Outland of California and Attorney Abe Fortas discuss this question on America's Town Meeting...
Flip Rhetoric? CBS proudly claims Corwin as its own uncommon man, repeats many of his broadcasts, gives him a free hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...
...Abe Gnippe (pronounced guh-nip), stocky, bespectacled cab driver and bowling fan, knocked off cruising in Chicago's Loop to watch the Petersen Bowling Tournament. Said he: "You have to throw 'em slow. You throw a fast ball and it goes bloop right through...
Such spoofing is one way of placating his pet peeves, says Abe. But the "good things, like Oscar Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan and Christmas carols" he cannot kid. That still leaves him plenty of subjects...