Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...service ends twelve miles from town, electricity 19 miles, the road 26 miles. In Juneau too, as if insulated from the rest of the territory by the mountains, are those who are most vocal against immediate statehood, led by the Juneau Empire's Publisher William Prescott ("Alamo"') Allen, a former Texan...
...After that kind of ordeal over there, you will be all right." Cliburn hit Constitution Hall like a landslide, stayed for lunch in the Senate Dining Room with the congressional delegation from Texas. At week's end he returned to Manhattan to appear on TV's Steve Allen Show and to get ready for his first RCA Victor recording of the Tchaikovsky concerto (first pressing: 150,000 copies...
...time great. For our viewing pleasure, the Brattle served up an old but welcome Bogart-Bacall item; for our dining pleasure, Adams House served up not only bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches but also toasted frankfurters; and then, to crown the day with some more viewing pleasure, Steve Allen had as his guests on television Louis Armstrong, Van Cliburn and Peter Ustinov. Clearly it was one of the finest Sundays it is this reviewer's pleasure to remember...
...excesses in gastronomy of Adams House and the excesses in artistry of Mr. Allen may not be of immediate concern to the Brattle viewing public, but they are, in a sense at least, relevant to the general mood which seemed to prevail at that hotel for the psyche. The sense was one of gladness, indeed pleasure, for Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were home again, and I feel certain I am taking no liberties when I say for my brethren viewers that the return of Bogart and Bacall fully made the day for all of us; this, in spite...
Cosmic Radiation. Space's swirling storms of atomic particles cause mutations (mostly undesirable for survival) in bread mold, probably will have the same effect in humans if they strike the genes in the reproductive system. Unsuspected until this month's report by Iowa Physicist Dr. James Van Allen was the intense radiation storm encountered 600 miles from the earth by Explorer satellites. Still to be learned is whether this danger zone stretches from pole to pole. If so, the space traveler may have to hurry through it, as Dr. Simons says, "like running fast through a grass fire...