Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four years Attorney General Tom Clark had given the party on Harry Truman's birthday. This was the biggest one of all. Court Jester George Allen, deep in the Truman doghouse last summer for his pro-Eisenhower antics, was out again and sniffing the friendly presidential air for the first time in months. He sat pleased and smiling at Harry Truman's own table. New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, another doghouse tenant in pre-convention days, also had slipped back into the family. Ailing Les Biffle, Senate Secretary and a pal of many birthdays...
...seeing the best things of anybody who has ever been on Broadway ... I want to get into television before he uses up all my material." Jack Benny is smarting over what he considers the theft of a hillbilly sketch, which Milton claims to have used first. Says Fred Allen: "He's done everybody's act. He's a parrot with skin on." Eddie Cantor is rankled because, he says, Milton recently used a sketch written for Cantor...
...Starting lineup: Goal: Algy Allen. Defense: Captain Bob Forsyth, Dick Hansen, and Don Page. Midfield: Dune Mauran, Bill Kegg, and Bob Lange. Attack: Dick Bezanson, Rick Hudner, and Lew Soule...
...Fred Allen (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC) and Henry Morgan (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The old master and the talented novice of radio comedy fill a funny hour...
Room at the Top. Chicago management consultants Booz, Allen & Hamilton queried 65 corporations, found that U.S. executives are now seven years older (average age: 54) than their 1929 counterparts. Other findings: average age of corporation presidents is 59 today v. 53 in 1929; senior officers now average 55, compared with 48 in 1929; junior officers average 52, compared with 46. The firm's conclusion: replacements, which were slowed down by the war, will probably be rapid in the next five to ten years...