Word: abe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dice-Michael Kidd has staged his ballets even more effectively than he did on Broadway. Frank Loesser's lyrics are classy, too, whether his music is or not, and Director Joseph Mankiewicz has often made the most of a very good Broadway book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows...
...Good Names. Kayser's quick climb, a one-year wonder in an ailing industry, is cut right to the pattern of rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lbs.) 47-year-old Abe Feinberg's whole career. A hosiery salesman's son who went to work at 14 "cleaning 17 cuspidors a day for 17 underwear salesmen," Feinberg rose to be a cuspidor user in two years, quit his $75-a-week salesman's job when it interfered with his evening studies at Fordham Law School. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees...
Kitchen-Table Medici. The new kind of tiger keeps his nails closely trimmed and highly polished, spreads a heavy coating of talcum over his blue-shaven jaws, wears dark blue suits bought (price range: $75-$90) at Abe Stark's Brooklyn store, has the worldly and weighted mien of a Medici, and goes by the nickname of "The Bishop." He lives in a four-room apartment furnished in a style something less than half way between 1920 Grand Rapids and 1955 Park Avenue. There, one recent morning, Carmine De Sapio was taking his own sort of grassroots samplings...
...noted Washington lawyer, Abe Fortas, many Congressional investigations such as the McCarthy hearings have failed flagrantly to meet these tests. Fortas has said, "There are no standards of judgment, no rules, no traditions of procedures or judicial demeanor, no statute of limitations, no appeals, no boundaries of relevance, and no finality. In short, anything goes; and everything frequently does--and often on television...
Born on a farm in the new country, One-room school for his ABC, Admitted to the bar at 25, Honest Abe legend come alive. Sammy, Sa-a-ammy Hopkins, Grass roots...