Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week's Command Performance put the whole Fred Allen troupe on the air, plus Songstress Gladys Swarthout, Sportswriter John Kieran, Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, Comic Henny Youngman. Mr. Kieran talked about sports and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The band played Deep in the Heart of Texas for some homesick Marines in the Caribbean...
...along the headwaters of Verdigris River. The birds had come; they flopped their ungainly wings, carrying new twigs to the slovenly nests where they have lived for generations. In river-bottom gumbo fields, farm boys trotted behind the plows, picking up angle worms from the fresh furrows. Old William Allen White waxed poetic in his Emporia Gazette over the first yellow crocuses on the Y.W.C.A. lawn. Emporia farmers noted with satisfaction that the first pig litters averaged three more than last year...
Then, tipped off that big news was coming, the correspondents guessed rightly at MacArthur's arrival, but were forbidden to tell how he got there. So they were scooped again by the Chicago Sim's H. R. Knickerbocker and the New York Herald Tribune's Allen Raymond, who presumably had not heard that details of MacArthur's trip were off the record...
...TIME'S account of Hitchhiker Allen's bomber ride was based on an interview with him sent out by the Associated Press. His reply to Mr. Bullitt's letter: "I got my first opportunity to talk to Bullitt direct in Accra, but I fail to see how he could have missed knowing that I tried to get aboard both at Cairo and Khartoum, since I appealed to [ex-Minister to Bulgaria George H.] Earle, also Bullitt's secretary, to use influence to have Bullitt take...
...Post next August, for similar reasons, will also go the Washington Merry-Go-Round of Drew Pearson and Bob Allen, who recently took advantage of a clause in their contract to give Cissie Patterson six months' notice of cancellation...