Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color for the 200,000 color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing meat on the actors." But when Patti lent her big, plain voice to the color-drenched proceedings...
...first report of the satellite's launching was received at the Observatory at about 6:30 p.m. from an Associated Press release. J. Allen Hynek, the Associate Director of the Smithsonian in charge of the tracking program, and Kenneth H. Drummond, an administrative officer, immediately summoned what staff they could assemble and began to telephone "moonwatch" posts throughout the country...
...series after the intermission; beginning with a fine, driving Frankie and Johnnie, he spun his way through two of the best blues ever written: House of the Rising Sun and Hard Times Blues. White followed these with a blues version of Molly Malone. This song, like Barbara Allen before the intermission, illustrates his tendency to convert songs alien to his background into personal vehicles; his Barbara and Molly come from New Orleans, but Josh makes them convincing...
...certainly the most readable story in the current issue. It interestingly portrays a college girl's conflict between allegiance to her farm family and to the values of the richer city. A most amusing and dramatic incident of this is the interruption of the girl's "Dr. and Mrs. Allen have a tremendous amount of savoir faire," by the more important escape of her father's cows from the pasture. Miss Douglas is aware of the effect of the city on the farm girl, making them demand such needless conveniences as inside plumbing and all, but she fails to make...
Died. William Allen ("Uncle Bill") Lundy, 109, youngest of the last three surviving Civil War veterans (the others: Texan Walter W. Williams, 114, Virginian John Sailing, in), who volunteered in the Alabama guard at 17, was proud of his Confederate background and freely passed on his secret for a long life: "Keep away from them doctors, and take a little nip all along"; in Crestview...