Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio's critics have complained that radio is too lazy to produce its own comedians. This summer, while such vaudeville-trained funnymen as Fred Allen and Jack Benny are on vacation, radio hopes to answer the critics with three young, homegrown comics: Henry Morgan, Abe Burrows and Dave Garroway...
Tall, shapely Brenda Allen had just about everything a girl needed to become a successful prostitute. A teetotaler with a hint of Southern drawl, she had a mind like a cash register, and she hadn't been in love since she was 21 (about 15 years ago by latest reckoning). For all of that, Brenda had a little trouble getting along. Every year or so she found herself in a brush with the law for practicing her profession...
Among the winners of the third annual Horatio Alger Award, as outstanding symbols "of starting from scratch": television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont and Used Car Magnate Earl W. ("Madman") Muntz...
...Characters in "Allen's Alley...
Lucky Joe. In the Rio Grande cotton country, the first bolls of the new crop were ripe and the annual "first bale" race was on. Near Me Allen, Tex., young (27) Joe Acosta directed the 150 pickers on the 1,600 acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch with the nearby cotton gin, checking on his rivals. When Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first...