Word: abe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tumor when he was three). "Look," Cohn said to him, "for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes." Falk went to other studios, and in his first two pictures earned Oscar nominations in the supporting-actor category-one for his vicious evocation of Abe Reles in Murder Inc. (1960), the other for his Runyonesque hood in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles...
...Rogoff, 88, former editor in chief of the nation's leading Yiddish newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The Socialist-leaning Forward spoke for the horde of immigrants that arrived in New York City after World War I. Under the stewardship of Founder Abe Cahan and then City Editor Rogoff, it helped break Tammany's hold on the Lower East Side and led the city's garment workers into the I.L.G.W.U., meanwhile advising Jewish mothers to keep their kinderle supplied with clean handkerchiefs. The paper boasted a circulation...
Where are the snows of yesteryear, and where, for that matter, are the wrestlers we used to know? Where the Haystack Calhouns, where the Bruno Sammartinos? Promoter Abe Ford's "Championship Wrestling" at the Boston Garden last Saturday night resembled nothing so much as afternoon ten at the Chilton Club. The wrestlers Ford produced were, for the most part, an unimpressive lot, and they emerged, as Pindar once remarked, "untouched with sweat on thighs or neck." (Pindar was a Greek handicapper...
...Abe Ford has arranged another card for the Garden, this one for the beginning of December. Bruno Sammartino will be there, and a few other of the oldtimers. But it will not be the same. Just the other day. I heard that Haystack Calhoun has moved into a townhouse on Beacon Hill, and is taking graduate courses in psychology. If Haystack is hobnobbing with the Cabots and Lowells these days, whom can your trust? And is it all worth-while...
...Fikes swept third through sixth places, and Koerner placed tenth, assuring himself of a berth on the All-Ivy squad. But the next Harvard men were far back--Quirk (23rd), Fred Linsk (35th), Marshall Jones (37th), Jerry Hines (40th), Tom New (41st), Rojas (55th), Nat Guild (66th) and Abe Jones (75th...