Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he washed his flop-ears: "I can't do a thing with them," or Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Halloween, or their foil and sweetheart Fran Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear to watch the puppets being shut away in their box. Last...
Heroes, Heroines and Mishaps (John Allison; Ficker LP). An unusual collection of U.S. folk songs compiled and performed by Folk Singer John Allison. They range from Gypsy Davy, the sprightly tale of a highborn lady's seduction by a hot guitarist, to the blues-flavored account of the Titanic's sinking, sung by World War I troops crossing the submarine zone...
Hollywood's only accomplishment in making such pictures as Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, The Left Hand of God and I Confess, he writes, is "exploiting for dollars the sacredness of clerical celibacy, chastity and the seal of the confessional...
Bridge of Sighs. In Sydenham, England, when Jimmy Allison, 7, watching a movie, accidentally swallowed a shilling (14?), he hastened to the manager, confided that he was worried because "it's my fare home...
...general, the physicists are less alarmed than the biologists are. Says Director Samuel K. Allison of the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute: "Unless the rate of [bomb] testing is greatly stepped up, there is little or no danger to the general public. But if every nation gets into testing, the situation could be extremely serious." He favors an international limit on the power of bombs that may be tested...