Word: allene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MUCH ADO ABOUT ME (380 pp.)-Fred Allen-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...increase in their capacity by 1965, another 25% by 1975. Others are just as optimistic. Planemakers, who have the biggest backlog ($3.5 billion) of civilian plane orders in their history, feel that they are just getting started. "Of course I'm bullish," says Boeing President William McPherson Allen, moving his finger along an upward-slanted line on a chart. "The volume of airline traffic is bound to go up like this each year, between 10% and 15%. The jet will tend to accelerate it by shrinking the world...
...Like Allen, thoughtful businessmen in industry after industry, from farm machines to appliances, see few limits to the products they can sell. "A million new families are being formed every year," says an Admiral Corp. official, "and normal replacement on top of that gives us our market." The same 1,000,000 families, plus the fact that 300,000 houses are torn down and must be replaced each year, should give housebuilders a continuing market of 1,300,000 new houses annually a few years from...
This was the first joke ever told by Fred Allen, in a grammar-school revue. Over the next 50 years, a lot of his humor did not rise much above this level, but his nasally astringent tones and the cold poached eyes with which he regarded life were to be widely hailed as the attributes of a pungent social satirist. He was both more and less than that; in his best years, he was one of the funniest comedians in the U.S.; in lesser, later years he was an embittered heckler of most post-Allen entertainment...
...from England (1929), Milton Berle, Howdy Doody, Arturo Toscanini, and the first coast-to-coast telecast of a World Series (1951). Last week, as part of the four-day birthday convention at the color-blinding new Americana Hotel, NBC presented TV shows by Perry Como, Dave Garroway and Steve Allen, with such guests as Gina, Groucho, Debbie and Eddie and the NBC staff chimpanzee, J. Fred Muggs...