Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALBERT D. ALLEN...
Congress, for many reasons, was not about to take such initiative. Republican Leo Allen of Illinois voiced one sentiment: "My chief reason for being opposed to the bill is that it will cost about $2.4 billion."' Another sentiment: the integration-suspicious feelings of North Carolina Democrat Graham Barden: "There must be something influencing this drastic bill other than the construction of school buildings.'' New York Republican Stuyvesant Wainwright (who eventually voted against the bill) insisted on adding the kiss of death, i.e., a rider (the Powell amendment of last session) withholding federal funds from segregated schools, thereby...
...references to the Gaza Strip (it might offend Arabs and Zionists) and a simulated H-bomb explosion over a fictionalized Las Vegas (it might offend the State Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, the governor of Nevada, or somebody's aunt in Iowa). "Now I know what killed Fred Allen!" Stan Freberg cried, and complained of "panicky network people and panicky sponsors hanging like a tapioca curtain between the public and a comedian...
...Steve Allen, sometime author (FOURTEEN FOR TONIGHT), was merely trying to enliven an Authors' League of America dinner, but he planted the germ seed of a new lazy man's parlor game when he introduced Allen's Scrambled Book List. Some samples...
...From Allen's start it is only a short leap to NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, by Benny Hooper Jr., THE POWER ELITE, by Georgy Malenkov, A CERTAIN SMILE, by Leonardo da Vinci, or THE SUN ALSO RISES, by Aly (MY SON, MY SON! Khan...