Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly everything in [radio] is either corny, strident, boresome, florid, inane, repetitive, irritating, offensive, moronic, adolescent or nauseating. . . . Never in the history of humorous entertainment has such a great boon to the comedian come about. But . . . there is something grievously wrong with a business whose outstanding successes [like Fred Allen and Henry Morgan] are most appealing when they are knocking their profession on the head...
...Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). First appearance this season...
...issues affecting the working classes. What it is the Democrats are campaigning for remains a mystery. Weighed down by incessant squabbles among their own ranks, the Democrats are as yet unable to present a united front. The Southern bloc resists P.A.C. infiltration. And Truman's storm buddies Snyder, Allen, and Clifford find embarrassment in open discussions. The upshot of this shadow-boxing by the two parties is, as Mr. Schlesinger says, a "no-man's land where in the flickering half-light the donkey is indistinguishable from the elephant...
...team: le, Flynn; lt, Allen; lg, Drennon; c, Glynn; rg, Gudaitis; rt, Davis; re, Florentino; qb, Miklos; rhb, Gannon; lhb, O'Donnell' fb, Moravec...
Pearson & Allen will fight Hearst in the open when they air their radio plans in an Oct. 1 hearing. Whatever the outcome, FCC will suffer. If Hearst wins, the Blue Book threat will lose its starch; if Hearst loses, FCC will be accused of knuckling under to Washington's gossip boys. Said Pearson's & Allen's attorney: there is so much interest already in the hearing that "they're selling tickets...