Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Esther Williams, 22, hazel-eyed, streamlined Hollywood aquabelle, became an unwitting accessory to crime last week when one Allen Artenchuck confessed the theft of six reels of Esther's film, Bathing Beauty, from a Brooklyn theater on the grounds that "Esther Williams is the most gorgeous creature I have ever seen. When I could not have her, I made up my mind to get the film...
...Novena Notes joined in, announcing that in a poll of 10,000 of its readers (25% of them servicemen) they had voted Comic Hope the radio and film star who "most consistently violates" Christian principles. Runners-up: Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor. Least disapproved: Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen...
KENNETH C. ALLEN Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. New Orleans...
...briefing on the previous days' operations at 9:15. The rest of his day is spent in conference or in driving or flying along the front with one of his two aides, Majors "Chet" Hansen and "Lew" Bridge, while his able chief of staff, Major General Leven C. Allen, keeps the operations machinery spinning. After dinner Bradley usually sees a movie (e.g., Janie, Heavenly Body, Bride by Mistake, Dragon Seed) screened by his aides in his quarters, pecks out a letter to his wife on his portable typewriter, goes to bed early...
Last week the mystery was solved. Short, earnest Allen Reasoner, 38, a Red Cross field director, sadly admitted that he was the unwitting offender. The role, he said, had been thrust upon him during a 36-hour leave in Paris in mid-September. In all innocence he had called on a Paris adman named Pierre Elvinger. To him, Reasoner delivered an apparently innocuous message which Reasoner had received in a letter from his brother-in-law J. David Danforth, an executive with Manhattan's high-powered advertising firm, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne Inc. The message: Elvinger was expected...