Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mike Brody touched out Sam McClellan and George Ball of the Bellboys in the 50-yard free style besides trying his hand at the breast stroke. In the second event he triumphed easily over teammate Gordon Allen. Bill Jay was the winner of the 100-yard free style event...
...Samuel Allen Guiberson, 67, is a ham-handed Texan who struck it rich in his early 205, built a sowell oil business and a drillers' equipment company in Dallas. In 1929, a bright young Austrian named F. A. Thaheld (now Guiberson's chief design engineer) presented him with a new design for a Diesel airplane engine. Guiberson sank $1,500,000 in it, has been trying to sell it for airplane use ever since. To his bankers, willing to back him in oil, lis engine was just a crackpot scheme.' Once, when he borrowed...
...Kirkland House Juniors, Alan "Iggy" R. Anderson and Allen W. Mathis, have been working day and night to form a sizable fan club for Chucking Charley O'Rourke at Harvard. They aim to perpetuate the memory of Boston College's greatest gridiron hero among Harvard students; miniature Eagles and O'Rourke buttons can be obtained at Kirkland...
...William Allen White of Kansas resigned his chairmanship of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies...
ASCAP, whose members include every big name in U. S. music and whose contract calling for a percentage of the networks' take caused the breach, set up monitors in 31 U. S. cities. First to get the crackdown was the Fred Allen show. Twice, claimed ASCAP, the program had allegedly tootled the strains of the late ASCAPper George Gershwin's Winter-green For President. Legal talent prepared to sue CBS and its stations which carried the program, Texaco, the ad agency...