Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigheaded Richard Allen Knight, disbarred, divorced, disgruntled onetime lawyer and master of legal billingsgate, went on a well-publicized bender in Manhattan. (He once posed for photographers standing on his head outside the Metropolitan Opera House-TIME, Dec. 11, 1939.) On plushy upper Fifth Avenue, he followed up a street-corner conga by soundly bussing a couple of female passersby, then plunged into the Plaza Art Auction Galleries, where he encountered a statuesque beauty (an armless Venus) and struck up a conversation with her. Repairing briefly to the Sherry-Netherland bar, he emerged, gathered another crowd by bawling the headlines...
...class, was defeated by Josiah Henson of Navy in the second round, his first defeat in 27 matches in high school and College, but in his consolation match threw Eric Miller of Cornell in three minutes and 35 seconds with a body press, and in his second match decisioned Allen Crabtree of Penn State...
...Book-of-the-Month judges now number four: Critic Henry Seidel Canby, Novelists Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Christopher Morley, Editor William Allen White. President Scherman has no say in selections, but chooses the "dividend" books...
...both the Quarter-master and Field Artillery R. O. T. C. units for a year has been transferred to special duty with the War Manpower Commission, and left yesterday for Washington, D. C. His successor here will be Colonel William S. Wood, at present commanding officer at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont...
Colonel Wood has been commander of Fort Ethan Allen, where Field Artillery R. O. T. C. men spent their summer drill periods until last year, when that part of the Mil Sci program was suspended for the duration. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute, he has the reputation of being a strict disciplinarian...