Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks questioned the objectivity of a National Bureau of Standards' investigation that found the battery additive, AD-X2, worthless, and forced the resignation of Dr. Allen V. Astin, the bureau's director (TIME, April 27; July 6). In the subsequent hullabaloo, a committee of ten well-known scientists was assigned to investigate the battery dope, and Weeks reinstated Astin "temporarily." (He later made the reinstatement permanent.) Last week the committee's report was made public: 1) the quality of the bureau's investigation under Dr. Astin was "excellent...
...first hint that something was wrong from an anonymous tipster who had read the Digest story. He told the Herald that he had enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force with DuPre in 1942, although the book said that DuPre was in France at the time. Herald Managing Editor Allen Bill, who had helped Reynolds gather information for his book, assigned Reporter Doug Collins to investigate...
...play, Flamingo, telecast on last week's Danger, was written by Steve Allen. The music for the featured song, Forbidden Love, was composed by Steve Allen. The leading man: Steve Allen. Allen admits to even greater versatility: "I can play the tuba, make up songs from any four notes struck at random, and do a lot of stupid little things like a tap dance with my fingernails." In addition, Allen records bebop fairy tales, is writing a novel ("It's about the crackup of a marriage"), is working on a critical analysis of his fellow TV comics ranging...
...Roger Allen Moore '53, a first year law student, was awarded this year's Endicott Peabody Saltonstall '94 Prize, it was announced yesterday...
...shadier ways of high finance. But no two plays could be less alike in spirit, nor, for that matter, has Cadillac even a touch of the poetry or wistfulness of a fairy tale. A thing of gags and gadgets, of blackouts, movie shots and the loudspeaker voice of Fred Allen, Cadillac is satire that is always hurrying off into routine farce. Its corporation characters are the merest cardboard. But it has a lot of funny lines, and it has dumpy, inimitable Veteran Hull. Her stage reminiscences are not the least of her charms. "Shakespeare," she recalls, "is so tiring...