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Abby Mann was born Abraham Goodman, the son of a Pittsburgh jeweler. At 36, he has all the work he cares to accept, since he has decided not to price himself out of the market by asking for more than $250,000 an adaptation -with a nibble or two at the gross. He has succeeded in his one-man crusade for screenwriter independence, at least for himself if not yet for others. Important actors like Spencer Tracy have threatened to quit if a word of an Abby Mann script is changed...
...Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four-score-and-tenth time, Abraham Lincoln. Gregory Peck is a tinhorn gambler, Robert Preston a roaring wagon master, Henry Fonda a walrus-mustached buffalo hunter...
...encyclopedia tells us that Lake Mead, behind Hoover Dam, is the largest man-made lake in the world, but we know perfectly well that when we trudge to Humanities 119 tomorrow morning, we will have to ford a much more forbidding body of water--the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake, which forms at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broadway whenever Cambridge is visited by a heavy snow. This inland sea (one of several in the area: the Freedom Square Ice Floe is almost as impressive) is every bit as man-made as the one in Arizona-Nevada, for it results...
Crossing the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake without proper equipment simply means soaked, frozen feet and possibly pneumonia. A more frightening hazard in the aftermath of a winter storm is the falling of great chunks of snow and ice from rooftops and eves of University buildings. The only warning one may have of impending death from the sky is a cracking noise above and a flash of white...
...private vision of one who was born deaf. In the past few years, his extraordinary talent has earned him recognition around his native Los Angeles; now he has been added to the prestigious stable of the Downtown Gallery, which represents such noted older artists as Ben Shahn, Abraham Rattner, Stuart Davis, William Zorach and Georgia O'Keeffe. Dealer Edith Halpert introduces her new artist with a ten-year retrospective, borrowed mostly from the collections of such varied celebrities as Joseph Hirshhorn and Actor Robert Preston...