Word: allens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Henebry, 40, Air Force Reserve major general, learned from commanding bombers in the Pacific enough to become the 26-year-old founder of Chicago's Skymotive, Inc. (executive aircraft servicers). Allen J. Lefferdink, 40, onetime Nebraska grocer boy, went to midshipman's school in 1942, captained subchaser No. 672 on Atlantic convoys, came out to build a Rocky Mountain empire of 42 companies in banking, insurance, a new luxury hotel. Sitting in his office under the old 672's flag, he says: "I run my businesses just like the Navy...
...incantatory verse, Theodore Roethke writes poetry in which the meaning is just beneath the surface, with only the end of its nose showing. Perhaps the best of the U.S. poetic generation that is wedged between the spare witticisms of Wallace Stevens and the distempered howls of Allen Ginsberg's Beat Generation, 50-year-old Poet Roethke has restored simplicity to the tortured, packed lines of U.S. moderns. He has brought back melody to a poetry that was becoming as labored and dissonant as the twelve-tone scale...
...sooner had Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. returned to his Capitol Hill office last week than an emissary from the Central Intelligence Agency's Director Allen Dulles arrived on the scene. CIA's Dulles wanted to see Humphrey immediately about his 8½-hour Kremlin visit with Nikita Khrushchev. A little later Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John McCone called with an urgent request for an appointment. Humphrey settled by arranging to meet everyone in the office of Under Secretary of State Christian Herter right after his special midafternoon news conference. And that event...
...Steve Allen Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Guest (on film) Ingrid Bergman is all sweetness and Guest Jonathan Winters one of the weirdest, wittiest lights shining; Allen himself splits the difference. Color...
Fred Vinton fought back from an 0-2 deficit to defeat his opponent, and Wally Stimson, Tony Lake, Kent Allen, and Charlie Poletti followed with wins to guarantee a Crimson triumph...