Word: abell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by SID LEVIN a nd BOB ABEL...
...Three Marines: Sergeant Abel Kavanaugh, Staff Sergeant Alfonso Riate and Private Frederick Elbert; and five Army men: Specialist Four Michael P. Branch, Staff Sergeant Robert Chenoweth, Staff Sergeant James A. Daly Jr., Staff Sergeant King Rayford Jr. and Staff Sergeant John A. Young...
...Died. Abel Green, 72, editor for the past 40 years of Variety, the bible of show biz (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...story carried the byline of Abel Green, Variety's editor for the past 40 years and the man most responsible for its whammo style and success. If Variety is the bible of show business with a slanguage all its own. Green, to mix up a Variety-style metaphor, was its King James. Virtually half the industry's vocabulary was respelled under his jocular hand. Samples: webs (TV networks), fest (festival), biopic (filmed biography), exex (executives), soap scripter (writer of soap operas). His most quoted headline was penned early on in his career: STICKS NIX HICK...
...some of his personal philosophy: "If you like what you're doing," he wrote, "and so long as you can physically and mentally function, my credo long has been that I'd rather wear out than rust out." Last week, shortly after writing his Page One story, Abel Green died of a heart attack at 72-doing what he liked...