Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scientific leaders in both the U.S. and Britain are worried by the public's low opinion of scientists. At last week's Minneapolis meeting of the American Chemical Society, Charles Allen Thomas, president of Monsanto Chemical Co., told his colleagues...
...gagwriters" who ran a joke factory supplying gags to Fanny Brice, Lou Holtz, Eddie Cantor et al. Wouk's job was to clip and card-index old jokes and to clean up the off-color items. Two years later he was hired as a radio gagwriter by Fred Allen. His special chore for the Allen-program: the "People You Didn't Expect to Meet" interview, for which he unearthed weirdies, e.g., a goldfish doctor, a worm salesman and "the man who inserts the cloves in the hams you see in Lindy's window." Allen also credits Wouk...
...late watches of the night-when the inebriate becomes sentimental, the salesman paces his hotel room, the insomniac looks through his medicine cabinet. Radio fills the lonely time with all-night music, but television has moved more uncertainly. It has the brash irrelevancies of Steve Allen, the late late movies, the fast-talking pitchman promising a better, lanolin-coated world for $1 down and $1 a week...
Nevada's Republican Senator George Malone has been granted a visa to Russia. Among those who have applied for visas are Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen Ellender, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman, and Connecticut's Republican Senator William Purtell ("I hope to get the feel of the country"). Seriously considering trips to Russia are Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Henry Dworshak of Idaho and Democratic Senator J. Allen Frear of Delaware. Also mulling over the idea: Kentucky's grand old pro, Democrat Alben W. Barkley...
Consolation Prize. In Fort Wayne, Ind., an Allen County superior court judge ordered Norbert Rehm to cut the lawn every week for his separated wife, gave him "temporary custody of the power mower...