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...clutch of musicals caters to the best and worst of tastes. The astringent wit of Abe Burrows fuses How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the impish energies of Robert Morse provide the explosive for an evening of great delight. Multi-aptituded Zero Mostel brings his masterly clowning to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, an uproarious burlesquerie, lewdly adapted from some plays of Plautus. And there is still plenty of verve and joy left in the grande dame of Broadway musicals, My Fair Lady...
Least Glamorous. For Abe Ribicoff, service in the Kennedy Administration had not brought much of either a voice or a vote. Ribicoff, an able and savvy politician, was an early Kennedy supporter, and he expected to become Attorney General. Instead, he was given the HEW appointment-after it proved impolitic to hand it to Soapy Williams. Then Ribicoff also got word that a long-discussed post on the Supreme Court was not for him; he disclaimed his candidacy before the first vacancy went to Whizzer White...
Even worse, Ribicoff found himself outside the President's inner circle of confidants. It was the technicians of the Cabinet-McNamara, Dillon, Rusk-who had the President's ear, but they rarely saw fit to question his political judgment. So Abe was reduced to the dull and thankless job of administering a department...
...himself the job of chairman of the executive committee-Ferkauf delegated to one old friend after another all the time-nibbling detail work. A grammar school chum named Marty Agins has charge of the Westbury, Long Island, store. Joe Zwillenberg became company treasurer. Another executive job went to Abe Goldstein, a fellow Brooklynite whom Ferkauf met on K.P. duty at Camp Crowder, Mo. Recalls Ferkauf: "I was washing dishes, and Abe came over to me and said, 'Move over, I'll help you.' I've just gotten around to rewarding him. I've made...
...writer dolls are very talented. Wind up the Carl Sandburg doll, and it winds up the Abe Lincoln doll. The Lincoln doll walks 16 miles and comes back with a pretty penny for the Bruce Catton doll. Wind up the John O'Hara doll and it goes to Princeton. You wind up the Graham Greene doll and it confesses...