Word: allan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...columnist act was born last year in the mind of Hollywood Agent Leo Morrison, who proposed it to Lolly, the logical choice. After her husband, Dr. Harry ("my favorite doctor") Martin, approved, Morrison hired Cinemauthor Edgar Allan Woolf to cook up a skit. First problem was to get actors, but that was no trouble for Columnist Lolly, whose more than 400 daily outlets and strong Hearst connections are a potent argument in any studio discussion. Before long she had lined up Starlets Jane Wyman, Arleen Whelan, Susan Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER-Allan Nevins -Scribner (2 vols...
Historian Allan Nevins acknowledges the earnestness and honesty of Muckrakeress Tarbell's book. But he has long thought that the time was ripe for a reappraisal of John D. Rockefeller Sr. in line with later, less emotional understanding of the nature and function of trusts. Last week he made this appraisal in an exhaustive, intelligent, scrupulously just, lucidly written biography of John D. About half of Volume I describes his poor but honest boyhood in Tioga County, N. Y., his thrifty, God-fearing young manhood in Cleveland, Ohio. About half of Volume II describes his closing years of good...
...Allan Roy Dafoe, only man who ever brought five human females into the world at once, affirmed: "America isn't masculine enough. And Canada is following suit in the trend toward femininity. It doesn't make for happiness...
...last week boarded an Atlantic Clipper at Lisbon, returned to the U. S. from the wars. They were: the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Ray Sprigle, whose report on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black's onetime Ku Klux Klan connections won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1938; Lloyd Allan Lehrbas of Associated Press, one of a lucky handful of newsmen who happened to be in Poland last year when Adolf Hitler's army moved in with them; Cineman Arthur Menken, who filmed the desolation left by Russian bombers in Finland, the swarms of German raiders flying over Britain...