Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five seconds of radio silence mushroomed last week into a pressagent's dream. Acid-tongued Fred Allen started it on Sunday night with a verbal swat at NBC's executives: "There is a little man in the company we work for. He is a vice president in charge of program ends. . . ." After the first eleven words, NBC huffily...
...Sunday night two weeks ago Fred Allen was cut off the air for the twenty-five seconds he took to read a rather funny, inoffensive, and absolutely clean line which intimated, at least to the self-appointed censors of NBC, that radio's organizational set-up might not be completely perfect. Other programs, attempting to extract laughs from the incident, were likewise gagged. In New York this week one John Sumner, of the Society for Supression of Vice, led three detectives in a raid on the offices of Random House publishers. For reasons best known to himself he ordered confiscated...
...radio comedians got on the record, too. The ten: Benny, Cantor, McGee & Molly, Gardner, Burns & Allen, Bergen, Amos 'n' Andy. They formed their own company, Audience Records, Inc., and this week will release one eight-side comedy album of each act. Price: $4.50. The records will be banned from the air and from jukeboxes. They are designed, the company pressagent explains, for posterity and such of the living as would like to be the life of the party. So the folks at home will know when to laugh, the records were made with a studio audience...
...contributed by the opposition, entitled "The Failure of Democratic Socialism," bear the stigma of being inferior examples of what The Nation or The New Republic do all the time. But rounded out by two superb editorials on the Truman Doctrine and on the Students for Democratic Action organization by Allen Barton '45 and some nicely-written criticism by James J. Taylor '48, The Progressive well deserves to be successful in its ambitious circulation plans. A little more color in the die-straight writing. and the magazine would appeal to the potentially, as well as the already, politically conscious student...
...Varsity lineup: Allen, g; Graham, pt; Forsythe, cp; Davis, ld; Louria, 2d; Estin, c; Abbot 2a; Hurley 1a; Rogers, oh; Gregg...