Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pillbox Mailbox. In Evergreen Bluff, Mich., Allen Chesbro, after five successive wooden mailboxes had been flattened by drunken drivers, built No. 6 on a 15-in. steel beam, buttressed by 16 tons of concrete, guarded by a 130-lb. rail, topped off by an ominous replica of a blockbuster bomb...
Foods & Fred Allen. Bowles always wanted to be in government. From his great-grandfather and grandfather, both named Samuel Bowles, famed liberal editors of the once-famed Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he inherited what he calls "a feeling for the people's side." While he was going through Choate and Yale, with desultory marks for scholarship and high praise for his golf, young Chet kept planning to find a job in Washington...
...rest is advertising history. Benton, a whiz-bang salesman, snagged accounts from General Foods and Procter & Gamble. Bowles concentrated on market research, thought up radio ideas like the old Maxwell House Showboat (first big-time program with continuity of characters and scene), helped a despairing comic named Fred Allen dull his satire so that radio audiences could understand...
Died. Sir Hugh Allen, 76, Oxford University music professor, former conductor of the famed Oxford Bach Choir,† president of the prestigious Royal College of Organists, musical adviser to the British Broadcasting Corp. (he once divided human time into three ages: B.C., A.D., and B.B.C.); after an automobile accident; in Oxford...
...General Foods (cereals, coffee, etc.), $8,003,303 for Kate Smith, Burns & Allen, The Aldrich Family, Fanny Brice...