Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knotty problems had caused the delay. Mixed up with the idea of a magazine for insiders, Publisher Smart had another idea of a magazine for the underdog, militantly antifascist. First editor hired was Jay Cooke Allen, whose scoops as a foreign correspondent of the Chicago Tribune qualified him to edit a magazine for insiders. Off to Europe he hustled last summer to rake up new background, returned and began to gather a staff of militant liberal writers...
...Kappa roommate, sent in Marjorie's picture. That was practically all there was to it. Zanuck's boys were around soon after winner Miss Weaver arrived in New York to claim the prize. So you'll see her dancing in Sally, Irene, and Mary, Marjorie playing "Mary," Fred Allen doing the comedy...
...Allen E. Puckett, of Chicago and Eliot House...
...customers waited expectantly. "Well, we've done it," giggled a feminine voice from the London end. "They've done it!" shouted the bartender. No explanation was needed for the pub's regular customers. "They" meant the owner of the Plow, plain-featured, 35-year-old Ishbel Allen MacDonald, daughter of the late longtime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and her fiancé of two weeks, sandy-haired, 35-year-old Norman Ridgley, village handy man. The telephone call meant they had been quietly married...
...help the plot along. Second, I get a few real laughs at this Mr. Robinson who almost fails in the brewery business before he tastes his own beer and discovers what is the trouble with his product's demand schedule. I give the big ha-ha to this Allen Jenkins, who is very much of a laugh and a snarler than whom there is none better. The plot meanders along at just the right pace so I can get in a chortle at all the jokes and still hear the next line, which is a pleasure after all these sophisticated...