Word: allens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kings once resorted to the uncomplicated companionship of their court jesters to lighten the burden of loneliness that often accompanies power. U.S. Presidents have generally managed less condescending personal friendships while in office. Both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had the easy company of George Allen, an adept poker player and raconteur. Dave Powers served as a sort of White House entertainer under John Kennedy, accompanying the President to ball games and cracking Boston Irish gags to relax...
Abel is a good advertisement. For nine years he ran a network of KGB spies in the U.S. so skillfully that, when he was finally caught, CIA Director Allen Dulles wistfully observed: "I wish we had three or four like him inside Moscow right now." Abel kept in constant touch with the Kremlin from a studio whose windows, bristling with short wave radio antennas, directly faced the Brooklyn headquarters...
...Earle certainly wasn't one of the chief Meanies. Before the show he had given us all the tips on winning form he had gleaned from his years of emceeing after he replaced Allen Ludden. Mr. Earle hadn't been able to understand why we didn't seem to care very much about winning, and why everyone was laughing at all the wrong times. But it didn't really matter. The System took care of everything. The System made even James K. (for King) "Jimmy" Glassman want to hit the buzzer and get to say "Richard Nixon" on national teevee...
College Bowl emcee Allen Ludden, who later admitted he was rooting for Yale, ruled that Chatzie was a bona fide Yalie...
Divorced. Troy Donahue, 32, idol of the race-you-to-the-beach-house-for-a-Pepsi set (A Summer Place, Palm Springs Weekend); by Starlet Valerie Allen, 28, on grounds of mental cruelty (Val said he was always late to dinner); after two years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...