Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...especially fine form. Raffles pondered the best lines of Duffy's star, rumpled Ed Gardner, and cooed: "Hello, darling." Once, when the audience guffawed at a Gardner quip, the petulant bird fixed a baleful eye on the customers and shouted: "Quiet!" It brought down the house. On Fred Allen's program last spring Raffles, who is crow-size, flew away with the show by the simple expedient of soaring up to the balcony, banking gracefully back toward the stage and coming in on the orchestra leader's head...
...LOWRY ALLEN, M.D. Salt Lake City...
...Emporia, Kans. Gazette's sage old William Allen White prognosticated for the North American Newspaper Alliance: "I am one of those rare birds who believes that Roosevelt may not run for a fourth term...
U.S.O. hit on a solution: a one-man U.S. gag factory established in London to turn out material for touring entertainers. The man chosen was serious, curly-haired, stocky Hal Block-who resembles Actor Edward G. Robinson. A University of Chicago graduate (1934), he was a scriptwriter for Burns & Allen and coauthor of Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun. U.S.O. installed Block at BBC, which pays him a fraction of his previous earnings...
Roger Lazarus has been shifted from inside left to center forward for the Exeter game, and Dave Deane is coming back at fullback against Exeter to alleviate the shortage caused by the injury to Ortega. Paul Morgan and Herb Allen, standbys of the team which played Worcester, are playing against Exeter, giving the Exeter game a Varsity flavor. Paul Rogers will play against the French, however...