Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refreshingly candid airing from Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 46, editor of the Jones family's Tulsa Tribune and recently president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. In a lecture at the University of Kansas, where he won the first certificate of editorial leadership awarded by the William Allen White Foundation, Jones said: "We often tell our readers only half-truths. We are constantly sweeping facts under the rugs...
...anxious to progress in politics, will at midterm in 1960 have two opportunities to make headway: he can oppose the gubernatorial candidate put up by outgoing Governor Earl Long, or he can go after the seat held by Louisiana's powerful U.S. Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would try for the governorship, not only because Ellender would be a hard political nut to crack but also because Earl Long drubbed the mayor badly in the 1956 race for governor. To proud and progress-conscious Chep Morrison, the defeat still rankles...
...Explorer, is harder to interpret. Apparently the average increase above the intensity at the surface of the earth-twelve times-is about what was expected. More interesting are hints that cosmic rays in space may fluctuate considerably with time, and vary from place to place. Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa says that a radio station in Tokyo that was picking up the satellite's signals last week noted a sudden increase in cosmic rays to as much as five times above normal. If this observation proves correct, it will be a landmark in cosmic...
...long," somebody once remarked to the late Fred Allen. "Yeah," he rasped. "As long as the line at the box office." Last week Manhattan's so-called art theaters refused to give a line a chance to form for a major work of art, a film from India called Father Panchali. The theater operators decreed that the picture did not measure up to their standard-the gold standard. Explained one manager baldly: "The picture...
Married. Lyle (Skitch) Henderson, 40, goateed TV-radio bandleader (on the Steve Allen Show); and German-born Fashion Model Ruth Michaels, 28; both for the second time (his first: Faye Emerson); in Greenwich, Conn...