Word: allan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Historian Edward Channing, for one, called it a work of "almost unrivaled historical judgment." Columbia's Allan Nevins has singled out its first six chapters, plus one chapter of Macaulay, as "the best specimens of social history in English...
...Decameron, Wuthering Heights, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Chesterfield's Letters, Art in the Armed Forces, Moll Flanders, Crime and Punishment, A Farewell to Arms, Isherwood's Prater Violet, Sons and Lovers, Up Front, Eugene O'Neill's Plays, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Villon's Poems, Candide, Owen Wister's The Virginian, Rimbaud's Season in Hell, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Ward's The Snake Pit, Wakeman's The Hucksters...
...then he got interested in Alleghany. Young needed more cash than he wanted to risk himself, so he wrote a letter to an associate, Allan P. Kirby, the shy heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune made by his father in the F. W. Woolworth Co. Young told Kirby that he had a good proposition lined up, and Kirby came through with $3,000,000. The obliging Mr. Kirby, now president of Alleghany Corp., has been the financial angel in many of Young's deals ever since. It is actually Kirby's holdings, some 550,000 shares of Alleghany...
...week's end, the Bank's prestige had fallen so low that its directors supposedly called on Harry Truman to draft a man for the president's job. Their latest choice: Allan Sproul, 50, who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York but is not the kind of "name" the bank needed. While Sproul (rhymes with owl) was mulling over the offer, another name was dropped in the hat: Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Acting on the advice of Chester H. J. Keppler, Counsellor for Foreign Students, the executive board of the United Nations Council has nominated two of its members, Stephen M. Schwebel '50 and Allan P. Sindler '48, to represent Harvard at the International Students Clubs Convention to be held at Columbia University, December...