Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Althea were divorced. Their daughter, Rosemary, has just finished her sophomore year at the University of Pennsylvania. She has shown marked acting talent, perhaps inherited from her paternal grandmother. Thurber is an affectionate father; he and his daughter get along splendidly. Althea is now the wife of Dr. Allen Gilmore, head of the history department at Carnegie Tech...
...said one Senator, "just can't take the grind any more." Barkley, newsmen were told, hasn't even enough strength left to preside over the daily sessions of the Senate, is forced to pass out the job to other Democratic Senators. Columnist Robert S. Allen dished out a full portion of his own inside dope: "Vice President Barkley is in serious danger of going blind. [He] has advanced cataracts on both his eyes...
...Stuart Symington: "It comes about as close to bribery as you can get." He was talking about the latest mess he has uncovered in RFC in connection with the $15,100,000 loan to Texmass Petroleum Co. (TIME, April 24, 1950), now Texas Consolidated Oils. Symington charged that Allen E. Freeze, former RFC official, had taken a $22,500-a-year job with the oil company while on RFC's payroll and while the agency was considering the loan, damned by the Senate Banking Subcommittee as a "bailout" for big banks and Massachusetts insurance companies. Freeze's duties...
Frederick Lewis Allen, editor of Harper's Magazine Litt.D...
Died. Bishop George Allen Beecher, 83, senior member of the House of Bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church and pioneer preacher of the old West; after long illness; in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He went to Nebraska in 1882, roved a vast territory in a pony cart, bivouacking at night on the open prairie, became a friend of Sitting Bull, toured Europe with Colonel William ("Buffalo Bill") Cody's Wild West show...