Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This physical education school was founded in 1881 by Dudley Allen Sargent, then director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard. In 1904 the present building was erected, and in 1929 it offered itself to B.U., which accepted...
Bookstore owners noted no single type of book as the most popular. Their bestsellers were "The Art of Loving," by Eric Fromm, "Views of Harvard," "Don Quixote," Fred Allen's "Much Ado About Me" and "Dylan Thomas' Poems...
...Though it is a hard saying, the success of the Hungary revolt remains in Hungarian hands. One important side effect of this condition is that the Hungarians have "clean hands"; even the Russians cannot say with a straight face that the uprising is just a conspiracy thought up by Allen Dulles and fought by a handful of reactionary landlords. This is an entire people speaking, and speaking proudly for themselves...
...Boston and Providence, NBC affiliates have dropped the costly live network show, Your Hit Parade, so they can start their own movie features half an hour earlier that night. NBC's nightly Tonight, with Steve Allen, has been so badly mauled by competing movies that the network is revamping the show-though, gamely, still on a live basis. What NBC dreads is that it may one day be helpless to accommodate an advertiser on its full national network because too many of its ISO-odd "optional" affiliates will be engrossed by Robert Taylor making love to Lana Turner...
...Fred Allen's Much Ado About Me, probably one of the most ironically untrue titles of recent years, will rate as a classic history of American vaudeville--which, when one considers its importance in the number of people involved, is a highly significant activity in our history. Fred Allen seemed to stand for all that was truly true and ambitious about the business. His sense of duty was religious, his loyalty unquestionable, his integrity never impugned. And he was funny, as this book reveals, not in the broad sense in which "Allen's Alley" made him famous...