Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your "tongue-in-cheek" profile of Fred Allen was marvelous. Tell me: What was Allen's retort...
...FRED ALLEN New York City...
...face it! Allen has been out-clowned by Hope and Berle, bested by Benny in spontaneity and naturalness of wit, and out-Aliened by Benchley...
Admittedly, Allen, with the help of guests, has risen to the heights of humor on occasions. Few things in radio have been better done than, for example, the Gilbert & Sullivan parody of last year with Leo Durocher. It is here that Allen's genius finds its best outlet-that is as a writer, and perhaps a director, rather than as a grater-voiced, not-so-funny funnyman...
...story is not all one of civil war, economic fever and malice domestic. Last week, it was spring in Hangchow, the city of Buddhist temples and merry poets, and Chinese in holiday mood were making their annual pilgrimage thither. Armed with a well-thumbed copy of Herbert Allen Giles's translations of Chinese verse, TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin joined them. His report...