Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harrison Baker, a newcomer from San Francisco who bills himself The Last of the Well Comedians (RCA Victor), is mildly notable because he is totally out of the new-comedian pattern, instead goes back a long way to imitate Bob Hope, with uneven results that are often funny. Beginning with the Pentagon ("a building that has five sides-on almost every issue"), Baker discusses the cold war in a deadpan style. Joseph Kennedy's way to solve the Cuban problem, he says, is to buy Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans...
...Wants to Sleep (Film Polski; Edward Harrison) begins in a dark alley; a man is clubbed to the pavement and his briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...
...field events, the shot put seems likely to be a close contest: Cambridge's David Harrison is an even match for Sarge Nichols and Steve Cohen of Harvard. Harvard and Yale should salt away the discus, pole vault, and high jump, while the English are safe bets in the javelin...
...such international junkets go, this one was distinguished more for pure rubbernecking than for the ritual clash of opposing ideologies. "Nobody tried to sell them a thing," said the tour leader, New York Times Reporter Harrison Salisbury. The tour was arranged by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Union of Soviet Journalists on an exchange basis (a U.S. press group will go to Russia this summer). The only role played by the U.S. Department of State was to permit the visit. And the travelers' only escort was Reporter Salisbury, who was nominated by the A.S.N.E. because...
...headquarters. Setting up shop on the 21st floor of the RKO building, he threw himself into the job with his accustomed vigor; but Corbu was never a man to work with a team. From the beginning the direction of the project had been given to the more diplomatic Wallace Harrison, designer of Rockefeller Center. When the U.N. Building was finished, Corbu wrote: "A new skyscraper, which everyone calls the 'Le Corbusier Building,' has appeared in New York. L-C was stripped of all his rights, without conscience and without pity." True enough, the building was a somewhat compromised...