Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN...
...powerful Deacon squad, led by Mike Broady, Al Mathis, Bill Rines, Bill Jay, Al Conger, Eric Dean, Tony Fascio, Bob Sceery, Jack Eberie, and Gordy Allen will encounter powerful opposition in the strong all-star delegation. The meet should provide the first real test of the year for Kirkland...
Versity: Foil--Labastie, Jones, Johnson; and Jaros, Koch. Epee; Croach, Brua, and Allen. Saber: Wright, Alberts, Williams: and Bott, Brua...
...latter readers still remember as the day England and France declared war on Germany. The first date Allen recalls with sketchy vividness. The day after Labor Day, 1929, when the Dow-Jones average of stockmarket prices hit an all-time high, was a scorcher from Nebraska to Maine. On the streets you could see a few back less dresses and bare legs, practically no tinted nails. Bobs were shingled in back, banged on brows, swept on cheeks. A man named Garnet Carter of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., got on a train for Miami, where he was to install the first Miniature...
...what trouble followed Sept. 1929 few U. S. citizens need to be told. Mr. Allen tells it with enough street-corner detail to suggest its charms. In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit. Apple salesmen shivered on wintry corners. Free wheeling was added to necking as a thing to do with cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur...