Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Upholds Story...
...story was printed in Robert S. Allen's Washington column last week. It read: "Adlai Stevenson has been proposed for president of Harvard University. He was recommended by Dr. James B. Conant, who gave up the job to become Ambassador to West Germany...
...California's Travis Air Force Base, Major John Eisenhower had a brief meeting with Marine Lieut. Allen Macy Dulles, son of the new head of Central Intelligence Agency and nephew of the Secretary of State. The major was on his way back to Korea to finish his tour of duty; the lieutenant, a stretcher patient bound for Bethesda Naval Hospital and further treatment for battle wounds...
...have always had two ambitions," says Frederick Lewis Allen, "to edit and to write." He achieved both of them. A staffer on Harper's Magazine for 30 years, Allen has been its top editor for the last 11. He has also turned out dozens of articles and found time to write such well-known books as Only Yesterday, The Great Pierpont Morgan, and The Big Change. Last week, at 62, Writer-Editor Allen's second ambition triumphed over his first. He announced his resignation as editor of Harper's Magazine (although he will continue as an adviser...
...World War II Fischer worked for the Board of Economic Warfare, later joined the Foreign Economic Administration. At Harper's since 1944, he has written magazine articles on politics and economics and is the author of Why They Behave Like Russians and Master Plan, U.S.A. Said retiring Editor Allen: "He is the logical man for the job. Harper's is primarily a magazine of political and international affairs; Jack Fischer is a very good man in those fields...