Word: allison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drunk caught a glimpse of the rumpled, hatless man entering the hotel and shouted: "Why, there's old Henry! He looks like a herring." Heaving round, the drunk padded through the side door into the empty lobby of Cedar Rapids' Allison Hotel. Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace came through the main door. The drunk grabbed Henry's limp hand and cheerily pumped it. Wallace gave him a sour look, yanked his hand free, and retreated to the hotel barbershop...
Unlike most big U.S. cities, Kansas City also has an undisputed first citizen. He is Roy Allison Roberts, president and general manager of the Kansas City Star, a 265-lb. extravert who presides over his domain with the shrewd joviality of Falstaff and the hearty acumen of David Harum. He looks like the jolly personification of the sun at midday. He achieved and holds his zenith because of a deceptive appearance of innocence (his favorite description of himself: "I'm just a big, fat country boy"), almost inexhaustible energy, and a congenital talent for politicking...
...Allison Davis, professor of Education at the University of Chicago, will deliver the twenty-fourth Inglis Lecture in Secondary Education tonight at 8 o'clock in Fogg Lecture Room...
...ALLISON...
...Detroit entry which had stayed out of trouble, Miss Peps-V. Lombardo dropped out with a fouled oil line, and Miss Peps finished the winner by quasi-default, a sort of streamlined version of Aesop's tortoise. Miss Peps, however, had not exactly plodded. With a converted Allison engine (from a Lockheed P-38) under her hatch and a converted Army pilot in her cockpit, she had averaged 54.88 m.p.h. Curly-headed Driver Danny Foster finished after being temporarily deafened by his engine, but not bleeding at nose & mouth, as drivers sometimes do after a bumpy, rough-water race...