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	Abe Kobo - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Abe Kobo
		He was a leader of the avant-garde, and his familiarity with Western literature, existentialism, surrealism, and Marxism influenced his distinctive treatment of the problems of alienation and loss of identity in post-war Japan.
		Born in Tokyo, Abe spent his childhood and adolescence in Japanese-occupied Manchuria where his father was a professor of medicine.
		Abe wrote many other works on psychological themes for the stage, such as Uniform 1955 and The Ghosts Are Here 1958.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Abe+Kobo (530 words)

	Abe Lastfogel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Abraham Isaac "Abe" Lastfogel (1898-1984) was one of the first employees and a long-time President of the William Morris Agency, a large diverisified talent agency.
		Abe was the seventh son of "a Yiddish-speaking animal skinner who'd fled Russia in 1889 to escape the pogroms and found work in the Gansevoort Street meatpacking district by the docks of the Lower West Side.
		The William Morris Agency hired Abe Lastfogel in 1912 as an office boy.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ab/Abe%20Lastfogel.htm (180 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: Just Lucky I Guess: A Memoir of Sorts
		Lastfogel was a man who was known as having a touch of genius, and so of course as a result he never saw anyone, excepting occasionally Katharine Hepburn, or John Wayne, or Mrs.
		Lastfogel thought he could see some signs of improvement but that perhaps it would be wiser for me to get out of ethnic music and into the straight classics, like Ethel Merman.
		Lastfogel said, "I think I see a glimmer of talent in this girl." He said his grandmother used to sing songs like this to him when he was a little boy.
	www.wnyc.org /books/9340 (2743 words)


		The Abe Burrows Papers were donated to The Billy Rose Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts by James Burrows and Laurie Burrows Grad, the children of Abe Burrows, in 1999.
		Abe Burrows, playwright, lyricist, director, screenwriter, comedian and play doctor was born Abram S. Burrows on December 18, 1910 in New York City to Louis and Julia Burrows.
		Notes, cards and one telegram were sent from Abe Burrows to his wife Carin on birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, etc. One card is from Carin to Abe, and the 1946 material is addressed to Carin Kinzel before her marriage to Abe Burrows.
	www.nypl.org /research/manuscripts/the/theburro.xml (3546 words)

	Thomas, Danny
		Restricted mostly to his home environs of the midwest, he secured a three year deal at Chicago's 5100 club where he was spotted by the powerful head of the William Morris Agency.
		"Uncle" Abe Lastfogel was to become Danny's mentor, overseeing his New York nightclub appearances, arranging a USO tour for him with Marlene Dietrich and landing him a part on Fanny Brice's radio show.
		Thomas obtained his own program when agent Abe Lastfogel pressured fledgling network ABC into accepting Thomas as part of their terms for acquiring the much-coveted Ray Bolger.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/T/htmlT/thomasdanny/thomasdanny.htm (1188 words)

	Interview With Byron Raphael
		The man who ran the agency, Abe Lastfogel had been turned down many times as a young man because he was Jewish.
		I remember Abe Lastfogel, who was the president of William Morris and probably the most important man in show business, he would walk up to me and say "What did you do, lose a bet?" And I'd say "No, no, no" and go on smoking it.
		He also felt some sort of gratitude toward Abe Lastfogel because years before, when he was managing Eddie Arnold, who was a famous country singer, the Morris office made a small deal for Eddy Arnold to make a movie.
	www.classicbands.com /ByronRaphaelInterview.html (5976 words)

	William Morris Agency - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		By the time WMA formerly incorporated in New York State on January 31, 1918, Morris was joined by son William, Jr., and office-boy-turned-agent-turned-partner Abe Lastfogel as directors of the company.
		Lastfogel running the operation in New York City, the Agency featured an impressive roster of clients, including such superstars as Jimmy Cagney, Louis Armstrong and Will Rogers.
		The 1960s also saw many present-day entertainment industry leaders emerge from the famed William Morris Mailroom, continuing a trend that stretches back to Abe Lastfogel in New York and includes current WMA Chairman Norman Brokaw, who at age 15 became the first mailboy in the Beverly Hills Mailroom.
	www.wma.com /0/agency/history (775 words)

	Abe Lastfogel
		The William Morris Agency hired Abe Lastfogel in 1912.
		During WWII, Lastfogel mounted USO-Camp Shows with more than 7000 performers, including Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore and James Stewart, to two hundred million soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines around the world.
		Lastfogel stood by Edward G. Robinson in the 1950s when studios wrongly believed the tough-guy actor to be a Communist sympathizer.
	www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/abe_lastfogel.htm (314 words)

	Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Just as I was growing weary of prideful tales of half-baked banditry, Rick Jaffa, who was in the William Morris mailroom in 1982, tells a beguiling story of driving Abe Lastfogel, a legendary figure in the agency business for 70 years and who began as an office boy for William Morris himself.
		Lastfogel in his big fl Cadillac to a movie in Westwood, to stay with him and, above all, not to let him eat candy.
		While Jaffa was parking that Cadillac, Lastfogel got hold of a "Nestle's Crunch bar the size of a Chihuahua," and the resulting mess was bound to cause trouble for his earnest young driver.
	www.tellmeeverything.com /index1/Press.html (1796 words)

	Variety.com - Rig for silent running (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		By William Morris chairman Abe Lastfogel would have thrown the agency's newly minted president, Dave Wirtschafter, into the doghouse for talking to the press.
		Gellar bristled over her agent's assertion that she was "nothing" prior to recent horror hit "The Grudge"; Berry took umbrage with her deal points entering the public sphere.
		Lastfogel, of course, always made it clear that it's clients who get the press, never their agents.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117919822.html?cs=1&s=h&p=0 (394 words)

	William Morris Agency, Inc. -- Company History
		Lastfogel, who like his predecessor was a Jewish immigrant, had joined the talent brokerage in 1912 at the age of 14.
		When Abe Lastfogel retired in 1969, he generously divvied up all the agency's voting stock among its key executives and employees.
		Though the transition from Lastfogel to Lefkowitz appeared to have been a smooth transfer of power, William Morris was fraught with internal strife.
	www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/William-Morris-Agency-Inc-Company-History.html (2302 words)

	: Colonel Tom Parker: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But more important, with the help of [talent agent] Abe Lastfogel, who said it couldn't be done, he succeeded in completing a deal with MGM for the benchmark figure of $1 million.
		Lastfogel thought Parker was crazy, bringing [Parker associate] Gabe Tucker in for some light banter to distract the studio lawyers, and insisting he wouldn't do the deal unless MGM threw in the ashtray that lay on the conference room table.
		By sheer gall and snowmanship, Parker had succeeded in making Elvis the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, and his career total was even more impressive: since the beginning of their relationship, he'd brokered deals that had earned Presley $35 million.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/elvis_presley/86125/939740 (5337 words)

	ABE - meaning of word
		ABE - recently, you move Chernobyl to Chornobyl.
		Abe can mean: *An shortening of the name Abraham.
		Numerous people named "Abe": Hiroshi Abe* (actor), Japanese actor.
	www.wordsonline.org /ABE (105 words)

	Abe Lastfogel - meaning of word
		34) The William Morris Agency hired Abe Lastfogel in 1912 as an office boy.
		Finding success in the rapidly growing firm, Lastfogel ultimately moved to Hollywood in 1932 to manage William Morris Agency's Los Angeles office.
		During World War II, Lastfogel mounted United Service Organizations-Camp Shows with more than 7000 performers, including Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore and James Stewart (actor), to two hundred million soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines around the world.
	www.wordsonline.org /Abe_Lastfogel (215 words)

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		After several highly acclaimed appearances on Broadway and film, success was hard to follow.
		When it appeared to Griffith that his career was not growing, he approached Abe Lastfogel, the president of William Morris Agency.
		Lastfogel, I have struck out at film and on Broadway and I don’t want to go back to nightclubs.
	www.sparrowrecords.com /artists/biography.aspx?id=67502 (1151 words)

	ATA: Association of Talent Agents - Newsstand
		The Abe and Frances Lastfogel Foundation of the William Morris Agency
		Since 1972, the Lastfogel Foundation has served as the agency's charitable arm, but the agency's good works date further back.
		Partner Abe Lastfogel is credited with helping found the USO in 1941; he also helped client Danny Thomas launch St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 1962.
	www.agentassociation.com /frontdoor/news_detail.cfm?id=481 (602 words)

	Excite -
		The agency became one of the most powerful in the country - brokering talent for radio, films, nightclubs, and literature.
		William Morris merged with the California-based Berg-Allenberg agency in 1949, with Lastfogel at the helm.
		Now based in Beverly Hills, it is the largest worldwide talent and literary agency, with 225 agents and 3,000 clients.
	www1.excite.com /home/careers/company_profile/0,15623,859,00.html (612 words)

	Extra Army Rations \| TIME
		Affable Abe, who worked his way up from office boy to senior partner of show business' Wm.
		Working without pay, he operated on the premise that entertainment for servicemen was not only "desirable but essential." He had a big job recruiting entertainers, who were leary of the hardships and pay (the U.S.O., which is subsidized by the National War Fund, pays run-of-the-mill entertainers $100 a week, topflight volunteers $10 a day).
		Lastfogel made two trips overseas, found that even entertainment-hungry G.I.s complained when the shows were second-rate.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,803701,00.html (670 words)

	The USO: Hope for America Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Abe Lastfogel of the William Morris Agency, one of the world's largest talent agencies, gave a tremendous helping hand to the USO's Celebrity Entertainment in the early 1940's.
		Lastfogel left the agency to recruit Hollywood entertainers for USO shows, which were called" Camp Shows."
		The Hospital Circuit provided shows to soldiers in hospitals overseas and in the United States, and the Foxhole Circuit put on shows at bases on the front-line.
	www.airpowermuseum.org /exhibits/uso-hope/wwii/laughter.html (155 words)

	iWon - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The agency became one of the most powerful in the country - brokering talent for radio, films, nightclubs, and literature.
		William Morris merged with the California-based Berg-Allenberg agency in 1949, with Lastfogel at the helm.
		Now based in Beverly Hills, it is the largest worldwide talent and literary agency, with 225 agents and 3,000 clients.
	www.iwon.com /home/careers/company_profile/0,15623,859,00.html (612 words)

	CMT.com : Elvis Presley : Book Excerpt: Elvis and the Colonel
		But more important, with the help of [talent agent] Abe Lastfogel, who said it couldn't be done, he succeeded in completing a deal with MGM for the benchmark figure of $1 million.
		Lastfogel thought Parker was crazy, bringing [Parker associate] Gabe Tucker in for some light banter to distract the studio lawyers, and insisting he wouldn't do the deal unless MGM threw in the ashtray that lay on the conference room table.
		By sheer gall and snowmanship, Parker had succeeded in making Elvis the highest-paid actor in Hollywood, and his career total was even more impressive: since the beginning of their relationship, he'd brokered deals that had earned Presley $35 million.
	www.cmt.com /artists/news/1477812/09022003/presley_elvis.jhtml (5474 words)

	math lessons - William Morris Agency
		By 1930, Morris passed leadership of the agency to his son and Lastfogel.
		heading a new office in Los Angeles and Lastfogel managing the operation in New York City, the Agency featured clients, such as Jimmy Cagney, Louis Armstrong and Will Rogers.
		During this time, the Los Angeles office moved from Hollywood and Vine to Canon Drive in Beverly Hills.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/William_Morris_Agency (487 words)

	CNN - 'Marilyn Monroe' by Barbara Leaming - November 30, 1998
		Zanuck, though eager to begin Kazan's next film, wouldn't touch Miller's script, concerned as it was with unions and labor.
		Abe Lastfogel, Kazan's agent at William Morris, left the meeting and went directly to Warner Bros. to try his luck there.
		They had met before, though he assumed she didn't remember -- Marilyn and Johnny had once had dinner with Kazan and Abe Lastfogel, Hyde's partner at William Morris.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9811/marilyn.monroe (9226 words)

	WMA sees shake-up at the top
		The old-guard department heads like Haskell, who grew up at the agency during his 26-year tenure, were schooled in what many in the industry view as a more conservative tradition and approach to the business of agenting.
		Sources also stressed that the changes could not have happened without the blessing of Brokaw, who remains a major shareholder in the company and a vestige of the era when the legendary Abe Lastfogel ruled the enormously successful agency.
		WMA had been struggling to maintain a high-profile roster of clients, particularly in the feature film arena, when Wiatt was wooed five years ago to revitalize the oldest name in talent representation.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000739860 (912 words)

	Danny Thomas Story
		Impulsively, Danny promised to erect a shrine to St. Jude if the saint would show Danny his way in life.
		In less than a year, Danny was earning $500 a week at the 5100 Club in Chicago, and Abe Lastfogel, head of the William Morris Agency, took over as his personal manager.
		Danny went on to become one of the best-loved entertainers of his time, starring in shows in New York and Chicago, Hollywood movies and in the television series "Make Room for Daddy," (ABC-TV), which evolved into one of the most successful and honored family comedy shows in television history.
	www.stjude.tv /danny_thomas_story.cfm (533 words)

	Vintage Catalog
		Another uncle, Willie Burns--George's manager and writer--called Abe Lastfogel, the boss at the William Morris Agency, and asked him to give me a job of any sort.
		Lastfogel standing there with a hot dog and drink.
		elkins: An early assignment was to take Abe Lastfogel's New York bankbooks in for interest to be recorded.
	www.randomhouse.com /BB/catalog/display.pperl?0345442350&view=exe_print (2317 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		The tradition began in 1912, Rensin writes, when 14-year-old Abe Lastfogel was hired as an office boy at William Morris.
		The son of a Russian immigrant from the tenements of the Lower East Side in New York, Lastfogel became Morris’ personal secretary and, in 1930, inherited the business with William Morris Jr., a figurehead president who retired in 1952, leaving it all to the scrappy hustler who began in the mailroom.
		Through more than 250 interviews — 150 of which appear in the book — Rensin documents the well-known industry myth of the mailroom, from 1937 to 1999.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=10464 (1186 words)

	The American Spectator
		Published 3/8/2006 12:06:41 AM The William Morris Agency was run for many years by Abe Lastfogel, who stood only five-foot-two.
		He didn't want his employees to tower over him, so he only hired agents his height or shorter.
		One year at the annual company party for the agents and their families, one of the men introduced his young son to Abe.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=9502 (745 words)

	Excite - Liz Smith
		I called Abe Lastfogel at William Morris; he was Kate's agent as well as mine.
		I asked Abe to give the screenplay to Kate.
		He said she was going away to get away from the press.
	www1.excite.com /home/entertainment/celeb/liz_smith/0,13969,07_04_2003_1_10,00.html (774 words)

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