Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House flowed a series of crisp and rippling decisions, a new urgency of diplomatic cables and phone calls. Through the lobby on the way to the President's office hustled so many VIPs-Vice President Nixon, Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., CIA Director Allen Dulles, Defense Mobilizer Arthur Flemming, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Arthur Radford, et al. -that White House reporters lost count. Out from Atlantic ports steamed a carrier task force headed by the 60,000-ton Forrestal, while in San Diego seamen worked all night beneath glaring floodlights to get Wasp and Philippine...
...Steve Allen Show (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Gene Nelson, Duke Ellington...
...Away from It (Columbia). "Hollywood," the late Fred Allen once snarled, "is responsible for the termite theory of art. Out there they figure they can survive by gnawing on their own backlog." As a matter of fact, about 10% of current big-studio production, according to one educated guess, are new versions of old successes. The fashion in these remakes is to slap on plenty of Technicolor, sign up a couple of famous players, hire a band to play good and loud-and call it all "A Great New Musical...
...Correspondent. In Toronto, Thomas Allen awed fellow tosspots with accounts of his war exploits, wound up charged with impersonating a Canadian army lieutenant when an unimpressed veteran called police after Allen soaked up several rounds of his admirers' hooch, made the stories too good...
...Steve Allen Show (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). With Alfred Drake, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., T. C. Jones, Les Brown...