Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that moment on, Larson's career was a closed book. Last week the White House announced that Arthur Larson, 47, would resign from USIA to become a special White House aide for "countering Soviet propaganda." His successor: veteran Career Diplomat George V. Allen, 53, former Ambassador to Iran, Yugoslavia, India and Greece, onetime Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and an old hand with Congress...
Hard Work. Paar's peculiar combination of casual intensity and wit has caused one fan to call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been...
...success of Sputnik has given rise to a tremendous number of proposals, indictments, and disclaimers--and a great deal of confusion. J. Allen Hynek, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, is one of the few responsible leaders to realize the satellite's implications and make a constructive suggestion. He proposes that a Secretary of Science be added to the Cabinet...
Winans said that he was trying to get a speaker to replace Herter at the anniversary commemoration. Attempts are being made to schedule Arthur Larson, recently resigned head of the U.S. Information Agency, or his successor, George V. Allen, as a replacement for Herter...
From the Social Register. The men responsible for the American Opera Society's consistent success are Conductor Gamson, 29, and his cousin, Director Allen Sven Oxenburg, 30. When they were both students at the Juilliard School of Music, they developed a passion for Renaissance music, decided it ought to be played as it was originally in the homes of the rich. Founders Gamson and Oxenburg achieved their place in the sun through awnings. "Mother," Gamson explains, "is in awnings-the Port Chester [N.Y.] Shade & Awning Co.-and since they are very expensive awnings only people with money buy them...