Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neatly rigged to permit Benny & friends to triumph, the Jell-O quiz was repeated this week. Posing as a nine-year-old wizard on a quiz board composed of William Shakespeare, aged 6, Isaac Newton, 7, Lady Godiva, 6, and Fred Allen, 8, Benny made a great to-do about coaxing the Quiz Kids into telling him what sort of questions he will be asked when he shows up on their show later. As guest of the Quiz Kids, Benny will be primed on gags but not on questions...
...Alberts '41, Robert R. Batt '41, Lynn A. Brua 3d '41, Arthur C. Jaros, Jr. '41, Ben B. Johnson, '41, Joseph M. Koch, Jr. '42, Paul D. Littlefield '42, Captain Amos C. B. Murphy '41, Thomas W. Wright '41, and Arthur B. Allen '41, (manager...
...There are few white tenor sax which shows Georgie Auld to be improving by leaps and bounds. There are few white tenor men who can come near him these days (COLUMBIA) . . . Reissue of the week is Ride Red Ride by the old Mills Blue Rhythm band, which includes Red Allen, Buster Bailey, and J. C. Higginbotham. For a real "killer" tune, you can't go wrong on this. It's played at a breakneck pace, and is a fight to the finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty...
...roughnesses in the dialogue were more than overbalanced by a fast moving tempo and an exceptional musical score. A unified plot, backed by well-turned bit parts, concerns the acquisition and rejuvenation of Updike Whipple University by a pair of modern men about town, played by Allen Mathis and Jack O'Neil...
...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...