Word: allen
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Arkansas' John McClellan, Delaware's J. Allen Frear Jr., Georgia's Richard B. Russell and Herman E. Talmadge, Louisiana's Allen J. Ellen-der and Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina...
...argued that the proposal was a plot to 1) introduce religion into the public schools, 2) equate them with parochial schools, 3) thus open the door to public support for private schools. Finally the case reached the office of New York's State Commissioner of Education James E. Allen...
...Dough and The Price Is Right trudge on in the daytime, NBC will cancel Home, its 3½-year-old, hour-long "service" show, in August. NBC is also mercifully scrapping the Tonight format and reverting to the freewheeling foolishness of the old Ernie Kovacs-Steve Allen days, with slouchy, sentimental Jack Paar picking up the pieces left by this season's witless nightclub gossipists. For the first time in its ten years. Kraft TV Theater will maintain its $50,000 winter budget despite polls that indicate a viewer decline in summer. Tentatively set for Thursday...
Last month Frank C. Allen, managing editor of the States (circ. 103,583), had a bright idea. Allen had started as a reporter on the Birmingham News, had later read with interest Strickland's detailed accounts of corruption in Phenix City. As far as he knew, Strickland's face was unknown in Jefferson Parish, and after a quick phone call to News Managing Editor Vincent Townsend, Allen borrowed Strickland for a couple of weeks...
...Allen's hunch was right: no one recognized Strickland. Working up to 20 hours a day, he toured bookie joints by day, gambling houses by night. His technique was simple. "You have to sit there at the bar and drink a beer or two or they'll get suspicious," he says. "I tried martinis at first, but you can't drink many of them and know what you're doing. I've got beer running out of my ears...