Word: allene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that there is a paying public interested in education and self-improvement. This fact will not forever be lost to advertisers. We have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation comedy of Morgan and Fred Allen. The quiz shows and soap operas are wearing thin in their turn. When sponsors do realize that the American's concern with his personal inadequacies is not limited to "cathartics and mouth-washes," and turn their shame-on-you technique to exposing airpockets in his education, we can expect...
Harvard substitutes -- Allen, Carroll, Ripley, Carswell, Schwulst, Abbot, Woodruff, Kortepeter...
...chamber orchestra closely approximates in size the orchestra for which Bach originally wrote. Saturday's performance will feature the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, with David Allen of Boston at the piano, Clarence Taylor '49 on the flute, and Sarah Cunningham 1G of Radcliffe on the violin...
...Fred is a panhandler's dreamboat. For ten years an old vaudevillian named Wilbur used to rap at the door of the Allen apartment every Sunday afternoon. Every time, Fred lectured him sternly, finally gave him $10 "for the last time." Portland once caught Wilbur before he knocked, told him Fred was out of town. Fred waited, got more & more restless. When he had worked himself into a nervous lather, Portland relented, confessed. Next Sunday Fred lectured Wilbur twice as hard, gave...
Touch artists are not the only ones to see the color of Allen's dough. He refuses to talk about his charities, but close friends estimate that they cost him at least $500 a week. Fred says only: "I was poor once myself." Except when absolutely necessary, he gives no thought to money. He saves his thinking for his work...