Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news photographer's life is not always a happy one - as A. P. Photographer Allen Snipes can testify. On election day in Tupelo, Miss, last July, he asked Representative John Rankin to let him take a candidate-voting-for-himself picture. Rankin said no. Snipes snapped a picture anyway. As he walked away, the Congressman jumped him from behind, ripped off his shirt, scratched him, snatched his camera, tore out the film. Result: no picture...
...other linemen to fill the gap, with former guards Eddle Davis and Ned Dewey looming as starters. Both Davis and Dewey are experienced linemen, with the former a regular on the '44 eleven and Dewey a 1945 player. Behind these 200-plus-pounders Harlow has another ex-quard, Mal Allen, and heavyweight Ken Middendorf. As if his other trouble weren't enough, Harlow lost last year's starter John Coan from the tackle squad to the Army...
Ever since Fred Allen joined Benny, Bergen, McGee & Hope, no rival network has been able to break NBC's hammer lock on humor. Last week, little ABC weighed in a promising challenger: droll, deadpan Henry Morgan. His first coast-to-coast half hour (Tues., 8:30-9 p.m., E.D.S.T.) was the freshest and funniest new show in years. Morgan's secret weapon: a needle that tickles...
...becoming a radio page boy, he changed his name from Henry Lerner von Ost to Morgan ("I borrowed it from a dance-hall bouncer"). Before he joined the Army Air Forces in 1943, his nightly jabberwocky, sometimes savage, sometimes sophomoric, had drawn millions of New York fans, including Fred Allen and Norman Corwin. (Says Corwin: "He is a great, great artist-better than he knows...
...Burns & Allen (Thurs. 8:30 p.m. NBC) George & Gracie return for their 15th year...