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Word: abe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Will Silk Stockings Run? | 2/23/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: The Governors | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: The Governors | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...ABE MURRAY Ottawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE GOVERNORS: PROTECTING THE BARN | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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