Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fred Allen, Henry Morgan, Bob and Ray -or a lesser-known funnyman named Stan Freberg...
...keep tabs on TV's most persistent and most boring feud, the Sunday-night duel between NBC's Steve Allen and CBS's Ed Sullivan, the TV industry checks the Monday-morning Trendex ratings and awards the battle stars to the show that captured more viewers. Last week the broadcasters learned from pulse-taker A.C. Nielsen Co. a crucial fact the viewing public knew a long time ago. As many as 14 times within the hour, Nielsen deduced, audiences switch from Sullivan to Allen and back. The average viewer remains "loyal" to one of the shows only...
Addressing 250 people in Littauer Auditorium, Allen said that Nasser requires a large army to keep him in power. But to justify this publicly, the Egyptian dictator must point to some foreign enemy. That alleged foreign enemy, he said, is Israel...
...something. When I'm driving, I have to take it easy, hang back. If I'd cut somebody off, or anything like that, I could hear them yell, 'There's Godfrey, drunk again.' " <¶Ed Sullivan, tabbed by the late Fred Allen to "last as long as other people have talent," celebrated the ninth anniversary of his Sunday-evening variety show. When it seemed that the occasion would be blighted by the decision of his cosponsor, Lincoln cars, to cancel its share of the CBS show, Sullivan quickly found another, Eastman Kodak, eager to split...
Though approving the board's motives, Allen ruled last week: "The display of an item which cannot be freely explained and discussed is unsound educational practice." He ordered that the Commandments be banned. "If the end result of the display in the school of the Ten Commandments," said he, "is to stir up bitterness and dissension, then it is better that they not be displayed...