Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon, nor is it as monumental as the Roman Baths of Caracalla, after which Penn Station was modeled. But set down where it is, near one of the world's busiest railroad stations, shaped as it is (eight sides), lit with incandescent lighting installed by Broadway Lighting Expert Abe Feder, it is bound to command attention...
...about the South and its problems. Sometimes, in fact, its side-porch sociology is simply fatuous: the Negro is just too goody-good to be true, and Peck, though he is generally excellent, lays it on a bit thick at times-he seems to imagine himself the Abe Lincoln of Alabama. But the children are fine. John Megna, who played in Broadway's All the Way Home, has talent as well as teeth. Mary Badham and Phillip Alford, a couple of nice kids the producer found in Birmingham, don't have to act right-they just are right...
Saturday, February 9 Reading Room (CBS. 12:30-1 p.m.). Author-Editor Harry Golden talks about Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows...
...having its stars-Morse and Rudy Vallee-still on hand. In the female roles, Virginia Martin has gone off to Little Me and Bonnie Scott to have twins, but the new girls-Joy Claussen and Michele Lee-are adequately brassy and ingenuous. But if this is luck, Writer-Director Abe Burrows gives it a hand. He has a chart in his pocket that tells him the exact hour and minute that any given number or scene begins. Deciding to check on, say, the / Believe in You sequence, he pops into the theater at 10:39, and if anything is slipshod...
...railroads have as colorful a history as the 111-year-old Illinois Central, whose 6,466 miles of track run like steel spines down mid-America from Chicago to the Gulf Coast. Young Abe Lincoln was a lawyer for the I.C. for seven years. Civil War generals such as the Union's George B. McClellan and the Confederacy's P.G.T. Beauregard were once officials of the line. The real-life Casey Jones was an I.C. engineer at the turn of the century: "Casey's daughter fell on her knees / 'Mama, mama how can it be / Papa...