Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrible challenge of keeping both material and audiences from getting tired. Next fall CBS's Jackie Gleason will take a sabbatical, and NBC's George Gobel will try to salvage his popularity by cutting down his exposure. Such perennials as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have taken refuge in limited appearances or filmed situation comedies that produce greater mileage for less material. Next season Red Skelton's half-hour CBS program will be the only full-fledged weekly live appearance by a network comedian...
...against high-flying drones; the Air Force now calls its accuracy "superior." With B-52 production slowed down, at least temporarily, the new Bomarc should give Boeing a cushion against the trend to more missiles and fewer manned planes in the U.S. defense budget. Said Boeing President William McPherson Allen: "From now on, Bomarc will increasingly become one of our major concerns...
...Allen Hynek, director of the U.S. satellite tracking program, will leave for Teheran next week to determine the site of the last of 12 telescope stations which will track U.S. artificial satellites around the world...
...lots that had been virtually silent almost since the silent movie days. In the Kling Studios where Charlie Chaplin made The Gold Rush, and on lots that twinkled with the names of Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and Janet Gaynor, TV now grinds out commercials and films-Burns & Allen, Ozzie & Harriet...
Miniaturization Pays. In Santa Ana, Calif., Police Chief Edward Allen ruled that it is O.K.. if they fit. to park two small foreign cars in a single metered space...