Word: allan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their first assistant was Edgar Allan Poe; their first book review was J. G. Whittier's report (favorable) on Longfellow's Evangeline. Willis and Morris crammed down the throats of "the upper 10,000" the new works of De Quincey, Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand and anyone else they could buy or steal...
...group, in a special meeting at the Phillips Brooks House, elected Stephen M. Schwebel '50 as its chairman. Allan A. Sindler '48, and Baird Bryant '50 were named vice-chairmen. Other officers include Richard Elliot '45, secretary, and Edmund Woolrych 1GB, treasurer...
...from the Elks Club, and the office filled with noise. Joe grinned indulgently. Brother Charlie winked at some of the boys and invited them upstairs for a quick one (Joe does not drink). Mrs. Lila W. Doe, secretary of the Republican Committee for Franklin, Mass., arrived. LIFE Photographer Allan Grant was there to take pictures (see cut). Joe was back on the telephone. "Send out the notices for the Steering Committee meeting," he said, getting down to business...
...airlines, which have had their fill of bad news lately, gulped a few more swallows last week. They came from United Air Lines President William Allan Patterson. Said he: "All airlines (with the possible exception of Eastern) will lose money in the last quarter...
Married. Bess Myerson, 22, musically ambitious Miss America of 1945 (5 ft. 10 in.); and Allan Wayne, 27, doll company executive, ex-Army Captain (6 ft. 1 in.); in White Plains...