Word: allen
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...chief executive Henry Silverman's career as boss of a publicly traded corporation. Silverman, 66, is no household name, but he may be one of the iconic figures of modern American capitalism. Either that or "the Zelig of the corporate world," as he once called himself, evoking Woody Allen's cipher of a character who shows up at major historical moments...
...RECENT YEARS SHE SHONE brightly as a National Medal of Arts honoree and elegant, tireless philanthropist. But the long career of effervescent singer-actress Kitty Carlisle Hart spanned media from film (the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Woody Allen's Radio Days) to stage (On Your Toes) to opera (Die Fledermaus, her 1966 debut at the Met). Hart, whose husband was playwright Moss Hart, was best known for her 1956-67 stint as a lively celebrity panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth...
...place in the NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame, and won a Grammy. And now Dee can add another accolade to her mantle after she received the 2007 Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award last night in Appleton Chapel. Calling Dee a “brilliant American,” S. Allen Counter—the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations—praised this year’s recipient. “For over a half century, she has given masterful stage and screen performances that have awed and inspired Americans of all backgrounds...
Associated Press writers Allen G. Breed, Vicki Smith, Sue Lindsey and Justin Pope in Blacksburg, Va., Matt Barakat in Richmond, Va., and Colleen Long and Tom Hays in New York contributed to this report...
...such an amazing kid, Ross," wrote Zach Allen, who along with Alameddine attended Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Mass. "You always made me smile, and you always knew the right thing to do or say to cheer anyone...