Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Tate, poet Litt.D...
...With the Ed Sullivan Show consistently rated one of TV's top two most popular shows, CBS has had little trouble with NBC's mediocre Comedy Hour. Last week NBC announced its newest strategy. Beginning June 24, it is throwing Comedian Steve (Tonight) Allen, 34, into the Sunday night breach...
...show that Weaver meant business, NBC last week put the Bob Hope Spectacular, with Allen as narrator, against Sullivan. Said Allen: "I don't want anyone to think I'm rushing in with my sleeves rolled up to beat Ed Sullivan. It's a free country, and there's plenty of room in it for both...
Exuberant Ed Noble, who with Partner J. Roy Allen bought Life Savers for $2,900 in 1913, still holds a controlling interest in the $16 million company he calls a "happy, whimsical little business." A topflight public servant (he was the Civil Aeronautics Authority's first chairman) under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Noble swung the biggest deal in radio history when he bought the old Blue Network (later renamed the American Broadcasting Co.) for $8,000,000 in 1943. In 1951 he traded his 58% stock interest in the network to Paramount in a $25 million share swap, still serves...
...John Dewey Allen, 58, onetime messenger at the New York Produce Exchange (oils, fats, grain, seed, feed, flour), was elected the exchange's 59th president. As a boy, Allen picked up pin money plucking pickle cucumbers on his native Long Island. Breaking in as a messenger on the exchange floor in 1914, he became floor trader for Munn & Jenkins, shipping brokers, later founded his Allen Shipping Co., worldwide middleman between shipowners and bulk cargo shippers. Allen saw duty in two world wars (from buck private to colonel), directed operations at the port of Antwerp in World...