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Word: allene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prizes. The rarest of the rare ones is You Bet Your Life, a quiz show that is little more than an excuse for Groucho Marx, in his cheerful way, to insult six contestants a night. Other unemployed funnymen have tried in vain to duplicate Groucho's success. Fred Allen just does not seem right on NBC's Judge for Yourself, and Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money is far from rivaling Groucho's hold on his audience. When the wit falters, quiz shows usually try to make up for it by giving away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Guesswork | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

There is enough spirit and talent in Kirkland to make possible a House performance of Allen Sapp's cantata, "Little Boy Lost." There is enough indifference to provoke complaints from athletic secretaries that the Straus Trophy will never again be Kirkland's if more men don't participate in House sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isolationism and Famed 'House Spirit' Maintain Healthy Balance at Kirkland | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

Oralists for the winning Jaffee Club were John D. Stoner and Allen R. Trustman; oralists for the Scott Club were Bradford P. Colcord and Richard F. deLima...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jaffee Club Beats Scott In Ames Competition | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

...most eminent pupils in honor of his seventieth birthday. Virgil Thomson's Kyrie Eleison, with a rhythmically free main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: The Davison Concert | 3/31/1954 | See Source »

Music in Davison's honor, composed especially for the occasion by Henry L. Clark, Virgil Thomson '22, Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, and Allen D. Sapp, assistant professor of Music, will comprise the latter part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club to Present Concert In Honor of Archibald Davison | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

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