Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pugnacious, pug-nosed Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, whose Washington Times-Herald is sometimes referred to as "The Hen House," last week wound up one of her mussiest barnyard fights. In a front-page box she announced that she had got rid of Columnists Pearson & Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) because they had made "poisonous attempts" to "smear" General MacArthur...
...Pearson & Allen version was quite different: in February they had given Cissie six months' notice that they were canceling their contract with her; the MacArthur issue was trumped up and not the whole truth; the start of their fight with her occurred because "we did not believe that the President wanted Pearl Harbor" in order to get the U.S. into war. They drafted an ad giving their side of the story, but other Washington publishers, chary of stepping on a colleague's toes, would not publish...
Cissie Patterson's feud with Pearson & Allen was more complex and fiercer than the others in which she often engages. She has close family and professional ties with Columnist Drew Pearson. He is her ex-son-in-law and father of her only granddaughter Ellen, now 15, in whose favor Cissie was said to have drawn a will leaving her fortune (about $40,000,000) and the Times-Herald...
John M. Alcorn, head usher, announced last night that the ushers would be Maxwell P. Aley, Thomas J. Ashton, Otto Bremer, James Conway, Jr., Don Crary, David Harrower, Allen M. Johnson, Robert Keahey, Leonard S. E. Langer, Robert S. Landau, David Levin, Ernest L. Levinger, Donor M. Lion, Arthur S. Littell, James E. McNulty, Jr., Arthur B. MeCormick, Jr., Melvin L. Milligan, H, Maurice M. Osborne, Jr., Francis Park man, Jr., Sidney O. Smith, Jr., John R. Thompson, Andrew H. Wright, and Joseph L. Yarlott...
...nine minutes of the last period by the Yale Freshmen pulled them up from a 6-3 deflect, and they stalled for the rest of the game to overcome the fighting Yardlings. Nat Brackett and Brad Harris scored twice each for the losers, while Al Cook and Captain, Herb Allen came through once each...