Word: allens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he drove off to see the U.S. World Trade Fair at Manhattan's Coliseum near by, Ike bade goodbye to Mrs. V. Beaumont Allen, Manhattan philanthropist, who donated $3,000,000 for Lincoln Center's Repertory Theater, and who, like the President, had suffered a coronary attack. Nobody heard exactly what Ike told her, but apparently it had something to do with the kind of medical care he got during his illness. A moment later she dashed over to the President's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, 78, and bussed him heartily. Shouted Ike gaily: "Tell...
...accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...
Last week it was George Burns, making his nightclub debut as a single (after three decades of radio, television and movies with his wife Gracie Allen), who supplied the big-name show. Later it will be Dorothy Collins, Rosemary Clooney, Guy Lombardo, Gisele MacKenzie in a line-up that costs Harrah more than $2,000,000 a year. Harrah's operation must relieve the customers of $60,000 a day-more than $21 million a year-merely to break even. High as those figures sound. Bill Harrah, the largest single private employer in Nevada, beats them with ease...
...Steve Allen Show (NBC, 7:30- All times E.D.T. 8:30 p.m.). Half drowned out by the ruckus over ratings, Allen has quietly built one of the most entertaining of the weekly variety shows...
...mutineers stumbled off to their cells, the Communists turned their control of press, radio, unions and of the Baghdad street mobs to seek out other enemies, particularly in the Foreign Office. For the first time the Communist press openly demanded representation in the government. In Washington, U.S. Intelligence Chief Allen Dulles told a Senate subcommittee last week that the situation in Iraq is one of "the most dangerous in the world today." But the manner in which the Communists pressed for more power showed that they did not have it yet. At week's end Iraq celebrated the first...