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Word: abe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musicals are often the bane and sometimes the boon of Broadway's existence. The coursing humor of Abe Burrows and the kinetic energy of Robert Morse's performance help to make How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying one of those rare musicomedy triumphs of form over formula. The belly laugh is the convulsive vogue at A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where Zero Mostel, lewdly assisted by clowns and houris, is pillaging the comic genius of Plautus to vulgar and insane perfection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...remains for both the Republican candidates to overcome the great, vote-getting name of Abe Ribicoff; he is favored to beat Seely-Brown, and he might well carry Dempsey along with him. In that sense, a story doing the Connecticut rounds is appropriate. Alsop, pulling a switch on Seely-Brown's potholder campaign, is passing out Band-Aids with his name imprinted on them; other candidates are passing out G.O.P. cookbooks. An elderly lady brewed a Republican stew, took it off the stove with a Seely-Brown potholder and badly burned herself. She put an Alsop Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tumbling All Over | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...contenders in the two top races: Democrat Abe Ribicoff, 52, and Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54. running for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Prescott Bush; and Democratic Governor John Dempsey, 47, who is challenged by Republican John Alsop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tumbling All Over | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Abe & the Potholder Man. Last week in West Hartford. Representative Seely-Brown slung a paper boy's sack over his shoulder, rang doorbells, chatted briefly with the housewife, then handed out a brown-and-white potholder bearing the words: "Seely-Brown for U.S. Senator." Making a beeline for the next bell, he explained: "People throw campaign cards and buttons away. They keep potholders in their kitchens. A housewife will remember anyone who takes the time to knock on her door and give her something for her kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tumbling All Over | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...elected four years later by 246,000 votes, the biggest margin on record in a Connecticut gubernatorial contest. Says Ribicoff of Seely-Brown: "Who knows him? Go around and ask people. They know who I am. They never call me Mr. Ribicoff. They call me Abe because they like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tumbling All Over | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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