Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meet Me at the Fair (Universal-International) spins a plot that is as insubstantial and as highly colored as cotton candy. It is a sentimental tale of a runaway orphan (Chet Allen), a singing medicine man (Dan Dailey) and a beautiful welfare worker (Diana Lynn). By the time the picture has run its course, the medicine man and welfare worker, who are about to be married, have adopted the orphan and his dog, and have also put to rout a pack of crooked politicians responsible for lamentable conditions at the orphanage. Spotting this confection at intervals are some pleasant...
...Lawyer Allen Murray Myers, new in the neighborhood, walked into P.S. 19 last September to register his nine-year-old daughter Shelley for the fall term. He was, he recalls, "shocked to tears." He promptly told New York City's board of education that he "would rot in jail myself first . . . before I would send my only child to that dump." Myers and his wife, who holds a New York state teacher's certificate, began tutoring Shelley at home in her prescribed subjects. Shelley's five hours of "classes" are held on every day that...
...court, reserving a decision, told each party to file a brief next week. With a "backlog of deferred maintenance" of more than $75 million on all its schools, the perennially short-funded board offered Allen Myers a bit of appeasement. Decrepit old P.S. 19, it announced, will be abandoned just as soon as a new school, now going up, is completed next summer...
This year's eight man nominating committee was headed by Frederick Lewis Allen '12, editor of Harper...
...most versatile men I have on the squad," commented Yardling coach Allen Wilson. "In fact, he's one of the best best milers Harvard has had in a long time. We can use him in almost any spot," he continued...