Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France-is just as unready. The 126th is an Illinois Air National Guard outfit, originally an observation squadron which served in the Panama Canal Zone in World War II, later a fighter wing. It is commanded by a good airman: a veteran United Air Lines pilot named Frank Allen, 42, who led a B-17 group in North Africa and Europe in World War II. The 126th became a light bomber wing only four months before it was yanked back into federal service last March, got a refresher course of sorts in the States and was transferred to France last...
Sound-Off Time (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Fred Allen...
...Charles Allen Thomas, world-famed as a chemist but known to his neighbors as an amateur farmer, was annoyed by the farmland that he owned near Dayton, Ohio. Some parts of the same field yielded well, while other parts yielded badly. Chemical analysis showed that both patches had the same supply of plant nutrients. What was the difference...
...turned out that he had never heard of the awards or of the late George Foster Peabody, in whose honor the award was named. "It's a good thing the guy died," Groucho ad-libbed: "otherwise we couldn't have won any prizes." From Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Fred Allen or Ed Wynn, such a crack might have seemed outrageous. From Groucho it was merely funny...
...choice was to keep all the singing roles simple and "wide-eyed"; another was to keep the boy's part easy, the others more florid. Menotti chose middle ground, and although he has some difficult singing (and acting) to do, curly-haired and clear-voiced little Chet Allen of Princeton's Columbus Boychoir carries it off beautifully. Menotti has no peer when it comes to setting the English language to music and, as always, makes every word understandable...