Word: holbrook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to Nancy L. Holbrook, a resident of Eastman and wife of Cary! F. Holbrook, Dartmouth '20, "about 50 percent of the Eastman residents are upset...
...three men and three women who make up the Collaboration are hardly standup comics. Ellen Holbrook, the founder of the group, has modeled the Collaboration on a completely different brand of comedy. They don't work against the audience--they work with it. A native of Chicago and a long-time employee of the Second City Theater there, Holbrook has taken her cue from that city's improve tradition...
...show is more than improve. More than half the material, in fact, is made up of original skills and songs written by members of the group--most of them by Holbrook and George Melrod '82, a former Lampoon editor, who gave the humorous Ivy oration at Class Day last spring. These include takeoffs on TV commercials and news shows and new wave songs...
...brokerage offices keep hours more akin to bankers'. The in-store units also seem to benefit from the "halo" effect of Sears' consumer reputation. Sears is trying to capitalize on this sturdy image with a new television advertising campaign for its financial centers that features Actor Hal Holbrook intoning, "Trust us to make it work for you." (Holbrook is also advertising for a Toledo bank, and last week it sued him and Sears for violating what it said was an exclusive contract in the Toledo area...
...secret police, agents threatened, they would turn over to the West German press photos of him wearing only his socks. West German counterintelligence foiled the plot by extracting a promise from the newspapers not to publish the photos. The KGB tried to snare U.S. Assistant Military Attaché James Holbrook in a similar "honey trap" of seductive female agents during a visit to the Ukrainian city of Rovno in 1981. He reported the misadventure to U.S. officials and was sent home...