Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a departmental squabble behind the painting and hanging of the portrait and setting up the shelf of books. Both the portrait and the books had been there about ten years. The then, and still, chairman, Allen Briggs, was what is sometimes called an administrator rather than a scholar. Briggs was a dapper man, with a neat dark mustache. One would not have been surprised to learn he was a vice-president of a stocks and bonds company. For the public, or in addressing incoming graduate students, he stressed scholarly achievement; but in the in-fighting, some...
...news. "Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey of the state of American education, and a week or two later the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East...
...MILLION OIL AID is soon planned for Argentina by U.S. investment group spearheaded by George E. Allen, presidential golf pal. Group plans to extend $170 million in credit to Argentina, will do $300 million worth of drilling and build $320 million worth of pipelines, producing facilities in Argentina. In U.S. group are Atlas
...Steve Allen Show...
Died. The Rt. Rev. George Kennedy Allen Bell, 75. Anglican Bishop of Chichester from 1929 until his retirement in January, vigorous anti-Nazi who sharply deplored British saturation bombing of German cities, once (1942) interceded unsuccessfully for a group of German conspirators who wanted British Government acquiescence in a plot to kill Hitler, and was a stern advocate of nuclear disarmament; in Canterbury, England...