Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Burns, the most famous straight man in U.S. radio, observed his 40th anniversary in show business this week with a straight man's true imperturbability. As "the brain" and foil of the comedy team of Burns & Allen (CBS, Tues., 9-9:30 p.m E.W.T.), he was thankful that his old vaudeville routines, neatly brought up to modern times, were worth $10,000 a week as a package show to his sponsor (Swan Soap), and he was delighted with the show's 15,000,000-odd listeners...
...short term basis in keeping with the new policy of frequent rotation, Paul F. Perkins, Jr. '45 NROTC, today assumes the duties of Regimental Commander to the Navy V-12 Unit. Named to assist him as Sub-Commander and Adjutant are John Shillito, Jr. and Herbert S. Allen, both Naval ROTC seniors...
...became Director of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace in 1939 when that body was formed under the leadership of James T. Shotwell, and in 1941 was Acting Chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, which he and publisher William Allen White set up. Eichelberger has travelled extensively during wartime, visiting London in 1941. He is a director of the International Free World Association, and edits a magazine called "Changing World...
...people's mind was, as grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high...
Welcome, Stranger. In Boston, William Allen arrived cautiously from the country with $600 cleverly distributed over his person in six different wallets. He met a stranger who admired his build, felt his muscles, patted him, took his leave, got away with all six wallets...