Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finally, Allen suggested a "world symphony" to sell his soap ("We'll have 300 violins piped in from California . . . trombones from Texas . . . 90 French horns direct from Marseilles"). But it would not do, said Allen. To the tune of Tit-Willow, he explained...
...want to know who we are, We're the hucksters of radio. . . . . We're vice presidents and clerks, Confidentially, we're all jerks. . . . There was no mistaking the tune. With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, Fred Allen, radio's comic Pooh-bah, this week joined the growing ranks of the industry's flagellants with a withering burlesque: The Radio Mikado, written by Allen...
...came Soap Tycoon F. A. Allen. Sang Allen, to the tune of A Wandering Minstrel...
...hucksters of B.B.B. & M. suggested a radio show for Allen. He shouted the idea down ("If you mention that . . . again, I'll have your entire agency barred from Toots Shor's!"). To the tune of As Some Day It May Happen, Allen told why he dislikes radio...
...Class of 1943: George William Eisenbeis, Thomas Alexander Gleeson, Robert Taff Hurley, Jack Herbert James, Thomas Allen Rogstad, George Alexander Steele Jr., Galen Luther Stone...