Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open season for cuckoos at the U.T. with Buck Benny rioting again, and this time he doesn't riot alone. Fred Allen, his neolithic nemesis, is present to exchange verbal brickbats with the Winnetka wise guy in one of the best light musicals for many a month. It seems that Mary Martin is Allen's niece, and Beny doesn't know that. She's also the star of Benny's show, and Uncle Allen doesn't know that. In the resultant tempest, Fred keeps losing his temper, Jack loses his shirt, and Mary shows them all up by losing...
...November 2, President Conant made another speech for the William Allen White Committee, but this time he dropped the "short of war" stand which had characterized their previous statements. "Direct naval and military assistance" to Britain is only a "matter of strategy," he said...
...where they are to be sent and whether they wish to be in the horse drawn or the motorized field artillery, Colonel Jay indicated. They will be sent wherever there are vacancies in military camps. At the present time Harvard graduates are on duty at Camp Devens, Fort Ethan Allen (Vermont), Fort Sill (Oklahoma), and at other Field Artillery camps all over the country...
...years new Yorkers have seen the best college basketball in the country. They have seen the champions of the Big Six, Big Seven, Big Ten, the best of the South, West, Southwest. They have seen smooth-clicking Kansas (coached by Phog Allen, the Knute Rockne of basketball) and towering Oregon, a team of super-six footers, whose 6 ft. 7 in. centre can reach eleven feet into the air. But the team 16,000 fans turned out to see last week just on the most exciting show in the Garden's history...
...become extremely popular, Fats and his boys have a way of playing which is so completely effortless that the casual listener often tends to disregard the band and go on to something with more flash and immediate appeal. Yet take it from me, with the exception of the Red Allen band at New York's Cafe Society, you won't hear better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus, and then Fats gives a vocal burlesque of the phoney Broadway sentiment...