Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ALLEN...
Jack Benny was chosen top comedian for the seventh successive time; Fred Allen second; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's dummy, Charlie McCarthy (the people's choice in many listener surveys), third. Benny's Sunday-night program for Jell-O was voted tops, too, with Information Please second...
...London Times at the start of the war, but this letter did not say who authored the lines, and George VI simply used them without further research. The London Times readily turned up the letter, but it was only a casual epistle from a Mrs. J. C. M. Allen, of Clifton. Bristol, who said last week that she copied the lines from a 1938 Christmas card sent her by a Miss Dorothy Glover, also of Bristol. Miss Glover said her card was based on lines scribbled by her late father, Dr. Richard Glover, on the back of a post card...
Some Wylie selections: best quiz show, Information Please; best human interest, We, the People; best variety, Kate Smith's hour; best fun, Fred Allen's; best melodrama, Gang Busters' dramatization of Bank Robber Eddie Doll's career; best children's shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus...
...having done what he could for R.K.O., Producer Aylesworth gave up cinema, went to work for the management of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. No lover of the New Deal, he suited President Roy Howard's increasing distaste for the Roosevelt Administration. Last year Roy Howard upped Ray Allen Huber, publisher of the New York World-Telegram, made him general manager of Scripps-Howard newspapers and put Merlin Aylesworth in charge of the World-Telegram...