Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richard Allen Knight, disbarred Manhattan lawyer who once stood on his head in front of the Metropolitan Opera House, had at some of his former cronies in another of his privately famed, privately printed brochures-this one as a Christmas throwaway. Title of this year's effort: Our Friends and Relatives All Stink, or Just Awearyin' for You. He reported happily that he had induced his ex-wife (Dorothy, daughter of the late Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr.) "to spend $2 on me for every $1 she spends on herself. . . . I am just not happy unless I have lots...
...will carry some of the U.S. shows that make Canadians flick the dial, tune in on U.S. stations. Among them: Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Philco's Hall of Fame, and a serial, That Brewster...
...bits of weather information. . . . No thunderstorms tomorrow. Also no sleet, hail, eclipses or earthquakes. First showing of the feature picture at 12:31. . . ." Arpad was born in 1937 (for a few weeks he was called "Eggo - the Vane Bird") when the World-Telegram wanted to dress up Rewriteman H. Allen Smith's wacky weather stories (example: "Workers, arise! This would be a nice day to have off!"). Arpad's pen-&-ink father is 46-year-old Bill Pause (real name: Pause-wang), a greying, soft-spoken staff artist. Where Arpad's name originally came from...
...63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin...
Jack Benny has never forgotten his attempt to be funny on the night, 15 years ago, when George Burns married his partner, Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalia Allen, in Cleveland. Benny's idea of humor was to call up the newlyweds from San Francisco at 3 a.m. He did so and, getting a male voice, inquired, "Hello, George?" The male voice at once barked, "Send up two orders of ham and eggs" and hung...