Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio star who is not much disturbed about the threat of television is Comedian Fred Allen. Last week, filling in for vacationing Columnist John Crosby of the N.Y. Herald Tribune, Allen struck some ambiguous blows in radio's defense, managing at the same time to get a few elbow-jabs and nose-rubs into radio's face. Sample Allen opinions of the "romp, revel and enlightening fare" that packs the average radio...
TOWARD THE MORNING (458 pp.) -Hervey Allen-Rinehart...
...fictional history of the U.S. were ever smelted down from the extant tons of costume novels, some of the better chapters could be taken from Hervey Allen's books. Since he went to Bermuda 21 years ago to research and write Anthony Adverse, Author Allen (who now lives in the U.S.) has gone on plowing the past behind a strong but long-winded team of scholarship and storytelling. Toward the Morning is the third big volume in a pentalogy that began with The Forest and the Fort (TIME, April...
When the fit is on him, Author Allen writes with some economy and an eye for the telling detail. But in general, he lets his wagon ride cheerfully in all the worn ruts of narrative, less concerned with where he is going than with what can be seen along the way. Stern readers, for whom an adventure story is not enough, may well ask, "Is this trip necessary?" and for them the answer is no; but those who like historical atmosphere laid on thickly and with some skill will find it in Hervey Allen's latest...
...Frederick Lewis Allen has proved, the age of only yesterday, and the day before, is already history and ripe for retelling. .There is even gold to be found in ransacking the closets of the 19205-the era of the flapper and the grimacing mobster, the devotees of sex dives and bathtub gin, the frilly esthetes and champions of companionate marriage. William Hodapp has pasted together, with some success, an anthology reflecting the era through its fiction. The stories provide dramatic evidence of how drastically and quickly the patterns of U.S. life can change during a lifetime...