Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When NBC's Steve Allen decisively beat CBS's Ed Sullivan a fortnight ago in the battle for TV's Sunday-at-8 audience (TIME, July 16), the burning question among television's hucksters was: Who had done it, Allen or his guest star, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley? Sullivan, in the unaccustomed position of runner-up, affected disdain for the Pelvis, snorted that he would not have the gyrating groaner "at any price" on his family-type program. "He is not my cup of tea," Sullivan said loftily...
...last week Allen, without Presley, was decisively beaten by Sullivan. The answer to the question was plain, and to no one plainer than to Ed Sullivan himself. Without batting an eye, Strategist Sullivan dropped his week-old scruples, signed the Pelvis for three appearances on his show at eight-week intervals, beginning in the fall. Sullivan will pay 21-year-old Presley the astronomical price of $50,000, or close to $17,000 per appearance-$2,000 more than he could have had him for if he had made up his mind a week earlier...
...part of a research project for a master's degree, Frank Orser, graduate student in the department of speech at Ohio State University, queried as many as he could track down for some basic information. Fifty-six answered, including such famed TV writers and comedians as Steve Allen, Henry Morgan and Garry Moore. A summary of their answers...
...Sunday Spectacular (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). The Bachelor, music and lyrics by Steve Allen, starring Hal March, Jayne Mansfield, Carol Haney...
...operated Research Enterprises (radar and optical firing equipment). Tall, balding, an unbending pillar of Toronto society, Phillips is already president of two corporations (Duplate Canada, Fiberglas Canada), board chairman of another two (Canadian Pittsburgh Industries, Argus Corp.), chairman of the board of governors, University of Toronto. C| Carlos E. Allen Jr., 51, was appointed $50,000 a year president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, succeeding Clifford Young, who retired earlier this year. His selection ended months of joint search by FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin and the Chicago district for a strong president capable of commanding the respect...