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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, when Dr. Allen Johnson published the first volume of the Dictionary of American Biography, he was feted, dined by luminaries of worlds educational, literary, journalistic. It was inescapable that when Sir Leslie published his biographical dictionary he should be compared to Samuel Johnson. Friends found the same bluff exterior, the same "heart," the same relish in humor. The parallel between Dr. Allen Johnson and Dr. Samuel is obvious, superficial. Dr. Allen Johnson is diffident, crisp, quietly intellectual. Graduated from Amherst in 1892 he received his M. A. from that col lege three years later, the same year that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Abbe-Barrymore | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...have taken one of the leading parts will be unable to do so because of illness. The feminine parts are taken by women who have appeared in plays of the Dramatic Club and organizations in Boston, among whom are Naroissa Varney. Patricia Stevenson, Mary Crandon, and Rachael Allen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ANNOUNCES CAST FOR FALL PRODUCTION | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

Born. To Frank G. Allen, Governor-elect of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Allen, a nine-pound son; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Engaged. Allen A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of famed Manhattan financier Thomas Fortune Ryan (public utilities, Congo diamonds, railways, coal, tobacco, onetime officer or director in more than 30 corporations), to Janet Newbold of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Nests of Birds", Professor Allen. Zoology Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/15/1928 | See Source »

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