Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the free-for-all jumped Ridgway's new top information officer, Brigadier General Frank A. Allen. Though a good combat officer, Allen's record as a P.R.O. does not inspire confidence in war correspondents. As press chief for General Eisenhower during World War II, he was blamed for holding up news of the German offensive at the Battle of the Bulge. He also held up the news of the German surrender and war's end until the A.P.'s Ed Kennedy defied the ban and broke the story. Now, Allen assured the newsmen that...
...show last week on its regular channel, RCA also showed TV set owners that its system is compatible, i.e., it could receive the broadcasts in black & white. (RCA can also convert existing sets to color.) The new tube's performance was so impressive that such TV competitors as Allen B. Du Mont, who has opposed any form of color up till now, changed their minds. Said Du Mont: "The RCA picture was good enough to start commercial programs immediately...
...might be a good idea to get a copy of Captain Harry Allen Chippendale's Sails and Whales. Captain Chippendale, 72, is one of the last men left alive who during the last century pursued the largest of God's creatures over the bounding main in an oversize peapod, and did him in with a spike on the end of a pole. His memoir of those derring days, told with salty gusto, is sure to be one of the last authentic additions to the thrilling literature of old-fashioned whaling...
Northern "Exposure." In the N.E.A.'s book, the most notable "enemy" is Allen A. Zoll, executive vice president of Manhattan's National Council for American Education. Founded in 1946, the council claims to be "devoted ... to the eradication of Marxism and Collectivism from our Schools," and its devotion has led it to publish scores of tracts and pamphlets. It has "exposed" the "Red-ducators" of Harvard University (it lists 76 "proCommunist" professors), of Columbia (87), Chicago (60), and Yale (30). It has denounced federal aid to education as a sure step towards Communism, has charged that...
...this sort of propaganda, Allen Zoll is not alone. For two years, Chicago's Conference of American Small Business Organizations has been loudly attacking one textbook after another for "concealed theories of collectivism," and the Employers' Association of Chicago has been sending out its alarms: "Those thousands of Reds among the educators of our land-how many of them write the textbooks your children study?" Meanwhile, Manhattan's American Education Association has joined in; to its executive director, Milo F. McDonald, "Socalled 'Progressive Education' and Communism...