Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after his death, George Frederick Handel was more widely talked-about than ever. Sir Newman Flower's revised edition of his scholarly George Frideric Handel, His Personality and His Times had just been published in the U.S. (Scribner; $6); the late Romain Rolland's Essays on Music (Allen, Towne & Heath; $5) had a fat chapter on him. Handelian Robert Manson Myers had written a book-Handel's Messiah, a Touchstone of Taste (Macmillan; $5), out next week-on his greatest oratorio. Handel was not always so well treated...
Yale's great backstroker, Allen Stack, and Joe Verduer, world-champion butterfly specialist, from LaSalle, hooked up in the 300-yard medley relay at the Blockhouse last night and the result brought a crowd of 1500 to their feet roaring, as the first day of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships ended...
...Allen Stack, Yale backstroker who set a new intercollegiate record last weekend, will be the co-star of the show along with Verdeur, while Don DeForrest, all-around ace from Penn in three events this winter, should furnish real competition for the topnotchers...
Schlesinger described the Wallace Plan as a "sop for soft, fuzzy-minded liberals, the kind Roosevelt called the "yes,--but boys," in reply to Allen's statement that "principles are principles...
...Allen spoke very briefly and most of the meeting was taken up by his opponents...