Word: allenated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backing up these two are senior John Ogden, junior Dave Allen, sophomore Jim Smith, and senior Roy Cobb...
...syntax. "I didn't want you to think I was out when I was gone," she reassured her husband last week. "I always want you to know where I am even when we're together." Sadly, the fictional Wendy (played by Connie Stevens) recalls the late Gracie Allen, who died in August. There is nothing funereal about the show, however. Burns' interpolated remarks save it whenever it sags. Unexpectedly sticking his cigar into the action last week and looking straight into the camera, he said: "This show has everything." Perhaps...
Bearded Beats. No avant-gardist could resist a success like that, and when an English translation became available this year, the New York festival's sponsors leaped at it. Allan Kaprow, the inventor of "happenings," was signed up as director, and Allen Ginsberg, grand old man of the beats, was persuaded to take on the exacting role of the poet. The opening at Judson Hall could not have been more auspicious; it was picketed by a rival group calling itself "Fluxus," bearing signs: "Fight the rich man's snob art." Fluxus Leader Henry Flynt favors "compositions" in which...
...proof that builders who are shrewd and careful can ride high in spite of low tides has been provided by the Avondale yards, owned by Manhattan Financier Charles Allen's Ogden Corp., a widely diversified industrial complex (scrap iron, mining equipment, etc.). Avondale has developed a unique mobile assembly line for ships, even builds them upside down so that a welder can work in "downhand" comfort instead of a back-aching "overhead" position. In bidding for orders, Avondale's treasurer, Mrs. Hettie Dawes Eaves, employs a computer that figures the costs of 4,000 operations, is far more...
Died. Stewart Holbrook, 71, author and historian, a salty New Englander who in 20 fast-moving, informative volumes on early America (The Age of the Moguls, The Yankee Exodus) often found the human side more interesting than the heroic, serving up such tidbits as Ethan Allen's incurable love of "stonewalls" (cider laced with rum) and the fact that Billy the Kid in real life was a bucktoothed adenoid case; of a stroke; in Portland...