Word: allen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasure to learn that TIME'S book reviewer wasn't taken in by Robert S. Allen's phony-baloney story of how Patton and his Third Army...
After reading your review of Colonel Robert S. Allen's Lucky Forward, most Tim-erudites will undoubtedly write off his book as a collection of unfounded accusations, muddled documentation, and sanguinary description conceived for reflected self-glory...
...about that double meaning. There was no such thing. The gag that horrified Mr. Leech had jes' one single meaning. A few days later Gracie Allen used precisely the same gag on the air. American humorists going back from Chic Sale to Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward have all had fun with just such gags. Everybody laughed, nobody griped-just Leech...
Inside Job. In Oakland, Calif., Allen Nauman hid his $45 roll in his shoe, went to a movie, dozed off, awoke with the shoe still on, the roll gone...
...radio comedy leans heavily on dumb-belles. Last week, in the artfully stumbling footsteps of Gracie Allen, Jane Ace and other attractive dunderheads, a blonde newcomer was malapropping her way to the top. My Friend Irma (CBS, Mon. 10 p.m., E.S.T.), a situation comedy about a dumb stenographer and her smart roommate, was doing all right...