Word: garr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show business-I wasn't born in a trunk." Brooklyn-raised, Burrows majored in Latin and accounting, got his first job in Wall Street ("I went right up the ladder: runner, board boy, bond salesman-and then I was fired"). A script he wrote for Mimic Eddie Garr gave him a start in radio. Then he began satirizing Tin Pan Alley songs at private parties and convulsed Connoisseurs Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye with such numbers as The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes and I Looked Under a Rock and Found...
Epee: Peckham (B) defeated Constable (H), 3-1, and Arp (H), 3-2. Prescott (B) defeated Arp (H), 3-1, and Ager (II), 3-1. Alger (H) defeated Garr (B), 3-1, Peckham (B), 3-2, and Perscott (B), 3-1. Arp (H) tied Garr...
...Foils: Garr (B) defeated Sheldon (H), 5-1; and Franknann (H), 5-1. Ramey (H) defeated Peckham (B), 5-2, Garr (B), 5-4, and Prescott (B), 5-0. Sheldon (H) defeated Prescott (B), 5-0, and Pecknann...
...Sabre: Garr (B) defeated Gay (H), 5-4, and MacNeil (H), 5-4. Ellis (H) defeated Peckham (B), 5-2, Prescott (B), 5-0, and Garr (B), 5-3. Gay (H) defeated Prescott (B), 5-0, and Peckham (B), 5-4. MacNeil (H) defeated Struck (B), 5-1, and Peckham...
Manhattan-born Abram S. Burrows, who looks like an accountant or a salesman (he has been both), worked as a Wall Street runner, a board boy, a coat label peddler until he was nearly 30. Then he sold gags to Eddie Garr, the mimic, for $125. That turned him into a radio writer. Until last summer, he wrote Duffy's Tavern...