Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office atop a low, green building on the outskirts of Seattle, Wash. stands a potted, prickly-pear cactus plant. The office is the headquarters of William Mc-Pherson Allen, president of Boeing Airplane Co.; the cactus was given to him almost nine years ago as a symbol of his job when Allen took over as Boeing's new president. Scrawny, stunted and thorny, the plant then symbolized Boeing's postwar plight, with two of the company's plants silent and empty, 38,000 of its wartime workers out of jobs. Today, President Allen's bitter little...
...great many stock situations. Culture-bound Gilbert turns out to be a better than adequate painter with an inclination to color bananas blue; he suffers amusingly through a stint at the opera (someone told him it was "Tristan -versus Isolde"), and brilliantly handles a pugnacious drunk at a nightclub. Allen Jenkins agonizes familiarly as the champ's trainer, and Phyllis Coates is eye-filling as a Park Avenue blonde...
...drinking statistics. In Louisville's Brown Hotel Bar on the eve of the 1954 Kentucky Derby, 1,750 mint juleps were downed, mostly by visitors who hardly knew a frosted glass from a frozen custard. # The others: Bachelors Richard Russell, Theodore Green, Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson: Widowers Allen Ellender, Hugh Butler and James Murray...
...ALLEN KLEIN...
MacKenzie's receiver should be Don Pruett, while around the infield, Allen will go with Huge Guidotti at first, Joe Wennik at second, Bill Schifine at short and Phil Mathias at third. Captain Bob Wablers will start in right, with Bill Colvillo in left field and Ray Walker in center...