Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guest: Tallulah Bankhead...
...giveaway show, Stop the Music, appearing at the same time as Fred Allen, has caused the bag-eyed comedian's Hooperating to drop far below sea level. This week, Allen made a heroic try at recapturing some of the prize-greedy fans. After an opening fanfare, Allen's announcer advised listeners to relax, because "for the next thirty minutes you are guaranteed." He explained that Allen had arranged with the National Surety Corp. to replace any article of merchandise, or any cash up to $5,000, that any listener might lose because he was listening to Allen instead...
...their home states (e.g., "New England was founded by hypocrisy, and Texas . . . by sin"). When the smoke cleared away, NBC and CBS had canceled their Government contracts. The Voice got a new appropriation of nearly $12 million and was made one of the chores of able Career Diplomat George Allen, new Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs...
...State Department feels that the Voice is making headway abroad, in spite of handicaps. George Allen says: "Luckily, the Moscow press and radio give us an almost exact gauge of the effectiveness of our programs . . . Radio Moscow's efforts to answer the message of Democracy, carried by the Voice, have grown into a hysterical scream during recent weeks, and 18 Soviet stations have been identified as trying to jam us. We are clearly stinging the Kremlin...
Excused at Harvard were Harry C. Allen, Chester A. Alper, Hugh Amory, Herbert Barry III, Patrick J. Bratton, Richard C. Carroll, Andrew Daland, David M. Dauson, John DeCuevas, Joseph F. Doherty, Daniel Ellsberg, Hamilton Emmons, Harvey F. Fireside, Gerald M. Freed, and David J. Hanson...