Word: abner
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...founded Barium Steel. In 1938, his investment firm was booted out for good, after investigation showed that he had violated Exchange rules by juggling his books. Joe Sisto then concentrated on the steel business with the financial help of his longtime friend, New Jersey Underworld Boss Abner ("Longie") Zwillman...
...Lampoon has not, however, completely abandoned the lighter side of art. Its short poems, particularly Lines in Favor of Deposed Kings by John Updike, are amusing rather than laugh-provoking. Regrettably, however, Updike has also tried some sketches on College life in the style of Frederick Osborne and Abner Dean, portraying oversized deans and headless freshmen. Too obviously derivative, these are neither original nor entertaining. And Updike could also use some fresh cartoon ideas...
...ABNER M. FRITZ...
With creams, unguents, sprays, scented waters, chlorophyll tablets and electronically-treated toilet tissues, the U.S. relentlessly wars on the odors of nature. This preoccupation with the olfactible has made social outcasts of millions who are, in the language of the ads, not dainty, including Li'l Abner's Moonbeam McSwine. The latest victim is a town-probably at the moment the most deeply disgraced town in the U.S. For, like Moonbeam McSwine, Secaucus, N.J. (pop. 9,750 people and 75,000 pigs...
...counselor to the State Department; John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English: John R. Dos Passos '16, novelist; Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, author and editor and a member of the Yale University Corporation; David Edward Owen, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on General Education; and Warren Abner Seavey '02, Bussey Professor...