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...that Try is spinning its way to momentary fame, Freberg is already at work on another situation that he believes needs some taking-off. Excerpt from his newest, Abe Snake for President...
...fast, slapstick humor characteristic of director and book collaborator Abe Burrows is missing; the story, taken from Charles O'Neil's Christopher Prize novel, could be told unblushingly at a Sunday school outing...
...have applied them with equal success to their second panel show, It's News to Me.* Last week they launched the third in their series, The Name's the Same (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Like most of the others, it has a panel of experts: Comic Abe Burrows, Actress Joan Alexander, Musician Meredith Willson. It also has a funnyman moderator (Robert Q. Lewis), and a succession of contestants, in this case individuals whose names are the same as those of living & dead celebrities (among last week's mystery contestants: Jane Russell, a Long Island saleswoman). Each...
...years he made The New Yorker a synonym for urbanity, but he himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words...
...bonus . . . was a gift, as the company argues, or part of 'wages' within the meaning of the [Taft-Hartley] Act ... Although we ... believe in the Christmas spirit, we agree ... that the bonus constituted an integral part of the company's wage structure." Humphed dissenting Board Member Abe Murdock, onetime 100% New Dealer from Utah: "A genuine Christmas gift has no place on the bargaining table...