Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Memorial Church, the notes which close several thousand notebooks simultaneously originate from the 5000-pound giant in the new tower. This bell, more than twice as big as those in St. Paul's or Memorial Hall, is one of the few in Cambridge still rung by hand. Harold R. Allen, sexton of the Church, rushes to the cellar every hour from nine to four o'clock and, when the electric telechron registers 15 seconds before the hour, he pulls hard on the slim bell rope which hangs through a hole in the ceiling. He has been going through this procedure...
After a week and a half of watchful waiting, James B. Russell 2GB now has a glint in his eye and may soon have a new Ford in his garage. Russell is the student who is calling Fred Allen's bluff by asking reimbursement for a new Ford he might have won had he not been listening to the comedian's program two Sundays...
...response to two letters sent by Russell in the past week and a half, the William Morris Agency at Rockefeller Center, Allen's publicity men, finally broke the ice yesterday with the information that a thorough investigation is under way. Implying that they would just as soon hear nothing more from Russell for a while, the agency promised to take complete charge of the matter and notify him in about a week...
...business student wrote Allen last Monday, taking him up on an offer to reimburse listeners who had missed a chance to win a radio quiz prize because of being tuned to his show. Russell declared that he might have won the new car from a WHBS quiz program if he hadn't been listening to Allen at the time...
After receiving no answer from the comedian all week, Russell will send another communication to NBC this morning. He will repeat hie request for the car and will ask Allen to take personal care of the matter...