Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur A. Allen finds an extra nest of the curlew bird, perhaps he would be willing to move it to Denver and rent it to this discouraged family of homing pigeons...
...entertain people, give them something," Fred Allen cracked, in his disillusioned way. Vacationing on Cape Cod this week, Fred might well recall that crack: a giveaway program had belted Allen all the way down to No. 38 on the Hooperating, moved all the way up into the No. 2 spot itself...
...confident of this simple formula that they tossed Stop the Music, a full hour show, into one of the toughest spots in radio, Sunday from 8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T., bucking NBC's Charlie McCarthy and Fred Allen. Headlined Variety: "Who's Afraid of Fred Allen?" The confidence has paid...
Buying a Day. Sitting down with an author, Editor Allen will whisper soothingly ("But I can't do this to you . . . What a shame to lose this . . ."). Before the author knows it, Allen has slashed and re-arranged the manuscript. A successful author himself (Only Yesterday, a history of the '20s, sold 750,000 copies), Allen scrupulously tots up office hours spent on his own writing, then "buys a day" (i.e., deducts it from his salary). Fred and his wife Agnes (a Reader's Digest editor) collaborated on the between-the-wars picture-history, I Remember Distinctly...
...bookish but unpretentious sort, Allen likes to play parlor word-games, cowboy pool and the snare drum, clock track meets, paint in water colors, study his fellow man on street corners, and trade ideas about everything from college-girl fashions to Jake Kramer's backhand...