Word: allens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...self-educated physicist who has made a fortune in X rays and nucleonics, Victoreen "retired" from business six years ago to work longer hours than ever in his own research laboratory in Colorado Springs. His interest in hearing aids began when a hard-of-hearing friend. Radiologist Kenneth Allen, asked Victoreen to make him a gadget that would enable him to hear without straining at medical conventions. Size and weight were no object. Said Dr. Allen: "I don't care if I have to wear a football helmet and carry the batteries in a suitcase...
Craig Fanning, who was impressive in the Colgate win, will go at left halfback, while John Nelson will be at right fullback. Allen will be in the nets...
...Harvard can maintain the offensive, short-passing game which it has used in the first two games, and succeeds in tightening its defense, there should be little doubt about the contest. Cornell, however, has a strong forward line and a creditable defense, with a fine goalie in Al Allen...
Born Funny. More than any other TV comic, Hackett plays himself; he rarely gimmicks up an act or trades insults with his audience. In his first show, he seemed neither as bumptious as Jackie Gleason nor as carbolic as Steve Allen. His formula for success, if any, seems to be the unconscious ability to run into the ground the trivia of ordinary life...
COLOR TV will come close to meeting black-and-white price levels next year, predicts Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories. Du Mont has signed royalty contract to make Lawrence color tube developed by Chromatic Television Laboratories (50% owned by Paramount Pictures), plans to bring it out at factory price of less than $50, some 30% cheaper than current R.C.A. tube. New tube, says Du Mont, will simplify color sets, cut retail prices to around $340 for 22-in. color set v. $495 for cheapest 21-in. color set currently on market, and about $200 for comparable black-and-white model...