Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driving for the peripatetic TIME correspondents guarantees a variety of experiences. Frank Allen, driver in the London bureau, remembers, for example, a recent trip to Chartwell, home of Sir Winston Churchill. Allen had tucked a copy of the Prime Minister's book, The Gathering Storm, under his arm on the offchance of getting it autographed. As he waited, an aide noticed the book, said to Allen. "The old man's in a bad mood today. I don't think you have much of a chance." However, as Allen and his passengers were about to leave, Sir Winston...
...occasion Allen was responsible for keeping a TIME editor out of jail. The man was Senior Editor John Osborne, who was passing through London returning from the Far East. Says Osborne: "Unthinkingly and stupidly, I left London Airport for the Savoy without permission or visa, and the immigration and customs officials were in a splendid rage when Allen brought me back. His good offices and honest English face did more than my arguments to allay the quite serious threat of jail thrown at me by the officials...
...American delicacies at its 50th-anniversary banquet, sent him a round-trip air ticket and asked a club member, Greece's Prince Peter, who lives in a Tibetan border town, to help arrange Tenzing's trip. But both Peter and U.S. Ambassador to India George V. Allen got a cold turndown from West Bengal officials, who suddenly discovered that Tenzing could not be spared, even for a week. He was needed, said they, to carry out his duties as chief instructor of a government mountaineering school (which, though projected for months, has not yet been set up). Actually...
...battery additive that sparked one of the Eisenhower Administration's first family feuds-when Bureau of Standards Director Dr. Allen V. Astin was fired, then reinstated-is under fire again, this time from the Federal Trade Commission. FTC labeled the advertising for AD-X2 "false, deceptive and misleading," for stating that the compound can restore dead batteries...
Hardly any ex-Glee Club member who sang under Davison can forget his manner of conducting. In his pamphlet "The Reformation of the Glee Club" published in 1922, Frederick Lewis Allen '12 described a typical Davisonian rehearsal: "As you slip into a seat at the rear of the room, you hear, cutting through the deep, swelling tones of the chorus, Davison's sharp voice: 'Now's your chance! That's it! Good! First rate! This is a bad place; look out for it! That's the way, basses! Eyes! Eyes...