Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Describing the road system by which U.S. aid moves across Africa, the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Allen Raymond wrote tactfully...
...shock, snorted last month in the Boston Herald: "Try driving 400 miles, as I did yesterday, with nothing but the radio for company, and if you don't go nuts between 10 a.m. and sundown, you're tough enough to laugh off anything." Fortnight ago, Fred Allen, with his razor-strop smoothness, put on a savage parody (Clipso, the aristocrat of soap chips, presents Susan Spavin, Girl Sandhog). In Ottawa, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s general manager, W. E. Gladstone Murray, said he was going to work up a new "code of good taste" for afternoon programs...
...Detroit Symphony, 76 of whose 81 members will no longer make a minimum of $26 extra per week; down cast was McCann-Erickson, Ford's advertising agency, over the loss of a big slice of Ford business. But no more morose than usual was Radio Comic Fred Allen, who will move in to CBS's coveted Sunday evening spot on March...
...instructors in Business Administration: Allen B. Dickerman, of Auburn, N. Y., M.B.A. '41; Jack P. Gould, of Montebello, California, M.B.A. '41; Howard F. Hamacher, of Burns, Oregon, M.B.A. '39; and Clifford E. Young, Jr., of American Fork, Utah, M.B.A...
...press as a whole was not critical of the code. It was so anxious to be patriotic that it accepted the code without public criticism. It shared in part the attitude of famed liberal William Allen White's Emporia Gazette. Dropping the syndicated column Washington Merry-Go-Round, Editor White explained: "We. felt the authors, Mr. Pearson and Mr. Allen, were too anxious to print . . . matters which would offend the censor and possibly give aid and comfort to our enemies. . . . These young men are good reporters. They are honest and conscientious but just a shade too enterprising for these...