Word: humor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrates on administration and sales from his Kansas City office, and New York Broker Chauncey Waddell. ¶ Lord, Abbett & Co., of Manhattan, was brought into the fund field in 1932 by Andrew J. Lord, who was killed when his horse threw him in 1946; it is now run by humor-loving Harry I. Prankard, 56, the author of several books on accounting. It manages one balanced and one common stock fund with assets of $580 million (Affiliated Fund and American Business Shares), is now concentrating on consumer-industry stocks...
...author of my ability in America." The titles of some of his previous books (Gestalt Therapy, Art and Social Nature) suggest why. But in this novel, Author Goodman shows an impressive gift for fiction. His prose is strong-flavored and exact, his comedy is caustic. Still, for all its humor, The Empire City bulges like a diplodocus. The first of its four overlong, sometimes aimless books was begun in 1939, and Goodman says he may yet write another volume if he can find something else for Horatio to do. Really needed: not more adventures for Horatio but more discipline...
...Inscription. Still chipper and wreathed with good humor, the President led a pack of newsmen and celebrity hounds through some two dozen national exhibits of goods and crafts at the fair. He talked with Polish Ambassador Romuald Spasowski about Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish hero who fought in the Revolutionary War. Said Ike: "I always think of the quotation [on the Kosciuszko statue across the street from the White House]: 'And Freedom Shrieked As Kosciuszko Fell.' But I can never pronounce the name [kosh-tchoosh...
Kazan's most important contribution to the film, apart from getting remarkable performances from his actors, was to turn Williams' sweaty study of degeneracy into a comedy. Always searching for humor among the dirt--Kazan has his principals--Carroll Baker, as Baby Doll, Karl Malden, as Meighan, and Eli Wallach, as Vacarro--explore the comic sides of their characters. His direction is brilliant and the three performers, who give unanimously superb performances, prove once and for all that Kazan's rather nervous brand of naturalistic acting is quite suitable for comedy. The director's interpretation unquestionably improves the script, even...
Some Like It Hot. Humor triumphs over vulgarity in this uproarious farce starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as a couple of guys dressed up as dolls, and Marilyn Monroe as a doll who needs no dressing...