Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Journal-American and 250 other U.S. papers, pudgy Jack O'Brian, 43, writes a daily column that is lively, readable, and regularly a thorn in all sides of the TV industry. Last week, violating one of show business' most sacred taboos, NBC's Comedian Steve Allen took a deep breath and told Critic O'Brian off. He filled six columns of Manhattan's Greenwich Village weekly Village Voice in lambasting O'Brian as "the only TV critic in the nation who is rude, inaccurate, unchristian and vengeful...
...Charged Allen: "He has abused his position and power and assumed the role of the neighborhood bully. By far the greater number of TV people openly disapprove of O'Brian's professional methods. He is derelict in his duty to his readers, unethical in his methods, and beneath the respect of the industry because his column is frequently an outlet for his personal emotional delinquencies and vindictive displays of pique...
Among those on Allen's list of O'Brian's pet hates: Arthur Godfrey ("O'Brian will drag Godfrey's name into print for no other reason than to express contempt"), Allen's own rival Sunday-night Host Ed Sullivan ("His hatred of Sullivan is so pronounced that he cannot even bring himself to refer to his hour as a 'program' "), Comedian Jackie Gleason ("Initially, O'Brian praised Gleason. Eventually, he attacked him, at last so rudely that the two almost came to blows one night in a restaurant...
...injunctions against violence, when necessary, in order to uphold the law. During the bloody rioting between Hindus, Moslems and Sikhs that racked India in the months before and after independence, Desai's skilled and vigorous handling of his police cut casualties immeasurably. In 1954 U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen publicly declared that Desai's Bombay had been selected as the site of a $30 million Standard Vacuum refinery because of its "remarkable stability...
...Democratic Senator Mike Monroney, has rounded up an impressive roster of guest columnists from both sides of the Senate aisle and Washington-at-large. Among Stokes's pinch hitters, who took over last week: Senators Margaret Chase Smith, William Knowland, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, CIA Director Allen Dulles, Under Secretary of State Christian Herter, Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor, Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton, ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson...