Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea began with Dan G. Allen, a limerock dealer, who gradually became aware that "the colored population was moving our way. They have to have some place to go." Allen discussed the problem last month with neighbors and city officials, got the cooperation of Negro leaders and of Real Estate Broker Kenneth Harris, who handled all the sales contracts (average selling price: $9,500) at a reduced commission. Better yet, the Negroes have good prospects for expansion: Pinehurst Courts faces onto a 300-acre undeveloped tract, ready for building...
Died. Johnny Allen, 53, righthanded pitcher who-from 1932 to 1944-threw wild tantrums and controlled smoke balls while playing for five major-league clubs (Yankees, Indians, Browns, Dodgers, Giants), won 142 games, lost only 75, achieved in 1937 a win-loss ratio (15-1) that has not been bettered; of a heart ailment; in St. Petersburg...
...game-adapted from a 1953-55 radio show-pairs two colleges, each with four-student teams. Quizmaster Allen Ludden, 41, a sometime writer on teenage manners and morals (Plain Talk for Men Under 21, Plain Talk for Women Under 21), fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives...
Grim looks clouded the faces of Senate Preparedness Subcommittee members last week after Allen Dulles, pipe-puffing boss of the Central Intelligence Agency, testified in secret about the awesome difficulties of U.S. intelligence-gathering inside the Soviet Union. Most worrisome dim spot in U.S. intelligence: estimates of Soviet missile production and deployment are based not on knowledge of actual output but on estimates of missile-making "capability." Some subcommittee members found the present intelligence gap even more distressing than the future missile gap of the early 1960s (TIME, Feb. 9), hinted that they would be willing to vote more money...
Late in 1957 Christofilos (see below) became convinced that high-speed electrons released above the earth's atmosphere would be trapped by the magnetic field and circulate in complicated paths for a considerable time. When Dr. James A. Van Allen discovered shortly afterward by means of the Army's Explorer satellites that such a radiation belt actually existed and conformed to the predicted magnetic contours, the Christofilos suggestion looked even more reasonable. But no one knew whether man could produce enough electrons to affect the whole earth or whether they would prove, in the words of one scientist...