Word: abe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tomorrow evening, the curtain will rise on a new musical comedy entitled Silk Stockings. There will be a full house, of course--there is always a full house at Broadway openings when the play has been created by such big names a Feuer and Martin George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Cole Porter, and Jo Mielziner. The aura of a big hit will...
Ribicoff to a stately inauguration at the Capitol in Hartford, climaxed by a ball (3,000 paying guests at $25 a couple) with a grand march and a midnight sup per. Thus will Abe Ribicoff realize the American dream that, related in an emotional TV campaign speech ("That any boy could aspire to any position . . . and reach any heights"), helped to beat Republican John Lodge...
...Handsome Abe Ribicoff invited newspapermen to lunch at Bloomfield's Tumble Brook Country Club to outline his plans, told them he wants no pressagent-"a big press buildup is the worst thing that can happen to a man"-and demonstrated that he needs none. "I have always operated lean," said Ribicoff, talking economy. He wanted no lawyer on his staff either: "After all, that's what I am." He added modestly: "If possible, I would like to have an economist in my office." South Dakota. Joseph Jacob Foss, 39, who won the Medal of Honor as a Marine...
...ABE MURRAY Ottawa...
...house of representatives in 1938. He was elected to Congress in 1948, re-elected in 1950. In 1952 he tried for the U.S. Senate, was a victim of the Eisenhower landslide. In this year's campaign, Ribicoff said "Nowhere except in the Democratic Party could a boy named Abe Ribicoff be nominated for governor in this state." In a TV appearance the week before the election, Ribicoff made an American Dream speech in which he recalled how, as a boy, he would "walk through fields heavy with the smell of summer growth, lie under a tree and dream . . . that...