Word: abe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gromyko's day usually begins at 9 a.m. and ends after midnight. At breakfast he likes to read various morning newspapers. Among his literary favorites he includes, in addition to Russian classics, Hugo. Balzac, Goethe, Shakespeare, Mark Twain. His favorite U.S. movies include Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. His father was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister living in Gomel. He met his wife in college, in Minsk...
...years, Hollywood partygoers have shrieked with laughter at the impromptu gags and satirical songs of Radio Writer Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). But his celebrated fans have kept Abe jealously to themselves, assuring him that the sentimental public would never appreciate his acidly unsentimental humor. Columnist Earl Wilson once gloated: "Only us hot shots get to hear him." Last week, anyone with a radio set could hear Abe do his stuff. CBS had given him a one-man sustaining spot (Sat. 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.). Beefy, 36-year-old Abe Burrows was so delighted at getting...
...Abe's program is 15 minutes of casual rambling. He tosses out wisecracks, parodies travelogues, concert ballads and popular songs, rasps his offbeat lyrics and thumps out his own piano accompaniment...
...opened last week's show by announcing: "My rich, velvety baritone is ready to bring you . . . songs that all America never heard of." Abe's song titles include: I've Got a Gal in Calico Who's Dying for a Mink and You Ate Up a Hunk of My Heart...
...Denham might find it hard to get along with some of his board members. One of the new appointees was Utah's ex-Senator Abe Murdock, a down-the-line New Dealer to whom three G.O.P. committeemen strongly objected. The other was New York's J. Copeland Gray, a liberal Republican and up-the-ladder veteran of the Wage Stabilization Board and the Regional War Labor Board. The committee vote on him: 9-to-3. Gray's proudest boast: in 17 years as labor expert for Houdaille-Hershey's Buffalo subsidiaries (shock absorbers and firearms...