Word: allene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YORK--Four radio stars, Gracie Allen, George Burns, Jack Pearl, and Kenny Baker, were subpoenaed by Federal authorities today to testify at the trial of Jack Benny, radio and screen comedian, on a smuggling charge...
Married. Jack Doyle, 25, pugilist-singer ("The Irish Thrush"); and Movita (real name: Maria Castenada), 22, Mexican cinemactress (Rose of the Rio Grande); "somewhere in Mexico." Irish-born Pugilist Doyle, divorced last year by Cinemactress Judith Allen, was deported a few weeks ago for entering the U. S. without a health certificate...
...widely ballyhooed community banquet (1,000 guests), Kankakee toasted a pair of local boys, Harry Stella and Allen Bergner. Born within eight months of one another (the year before thg U. S. entered the Great War), young Stella, son of an Italian immigrant, wanted to be a soldier; young Bergner, son of a German immigrant, wanted to be a sailor. Playmates from boyhood, both made the football team at Kankakee High School: Stella at right tackle, Bergner at left tackle. When they were graduated, Stella went to West Point, Bergner to Annapolis...
British Publisher Allen Lane, whose sixpenny paperbound Penguin and Pelican have flooded British newsstands and brought him a fortune, left London for India, Burma and Siam. Purpose: to investigate the possibilities of publishing paper-covered books in Basic English (850 words which "do all the work of 20,000") for use East of Suez...
...Advocate, some U. S. poets pay respectful respects to T. S. Eliot. Conrad Aiken: ". . . stinging and subtle . . ."; Archibald MacLeish: "No one has taught us more"; Allen Tate: "I have had only two Masters, and one of them is T. S. Eliot...