Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stuart Allen was not the kind of teenager to attract either attention or popularity in St. Joseph (Mo.) Central High School. He was too selfconscious, too meticulously dressed, too fussily precise in his speech. His sophomore classmates thought of him simply as a grind with honor grades and a grind's liking for music, books and such unfashionable pastimes as mah-jongg...
...police what he had told his father before: that he had had an urge to kill someone. This time no one laughed. At police headquarters Stuart filled out a detailed confession, carefully initialed each page, corrected an error in his home address, signed his full name: Stuart Buckner Allen. Then police told Stuart something even he had not guessed about himself: he had been adopted by the Allens when he was a three-months-old child...
...Augusta, Me., millionaire Textile Manufacturer Allen I. Goldfine recoiled sadly from his wife, his lesser relatives and their charge that his "drinking and debauchery" and "unreasonable charitable contributions" had made him unfit to run his mills. After explaining that he had been a "drinking man since I was 13," he told the court: "We have so much money we don't know what to do with it-that's the trouble with the Goldfines...
...Henderson, 73, resigned as chairman (but not as a director) of RFC for reasons of health. As his successor, RFC elected John D. Goodloe, 38, an ex-newspaperman and lawyer who has been working his way up in RFC since 1932. He has been a director (replacing George Allen) since last January and has had the often hard job of explaining RFC's operations to probing Congressmen...
Tomorrow's lineup will find Hurley, Rogers and Gregg at the attack positions, Dewey, Esten and Abbot as midfielders, and Forsythe, Davis, and Graham on the defense. In the goal, coach Maddux will start Allen...