Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each morning around 9:30, Roy Allison Roberts, his teeth clenching one of the dozen Corona-Coronas he smokes daily in defiance of his age (72) and his doctor (who allows him six), climbs out of his car before one of the homeliest buildings in Kansas City, Mo. The building quarters the Kansas City Star and its companion paper, the morning Times, and Roy Roberts is the boss. Neither he nor the building looks the part-nor, for that matter, does the Star look much like the usual daily newspaper. Roberts is rumpled and jowly, the very image...
Jennifer, the flagellant with fluorescent molars, is a new character. But her leering mother-in-law, who crouches by a hot-air register listening to the merry whack of belt on flesh, is an old friend from the first novel. So is Heroine Allison Mac-Kenzie, the girl author who writes by day and wrongs by night. Like Author Metalious, she produces a bestseller about a meretricious little New England town, and is all but drummed out of it by indignant neighbors. Her fatherly old publisher comforts her in the best way he knows how, and he certainly knows...
Sweet Smell of Excess. In Spartanburg, S.C., a jury could not decide whether Wilbur Fowler Allison was guilty of drunken driving, despite a cop's word that Allison reeked and was staggering, after Allison's barber swore that he had doused the accused with a 70%-alcohol hair tonic shortly before his arrest...
This year's 44 fellows are the cream of their trades. On hand is Political Scientist Benjamin Wright, former president of Smith College. From the University of Chicago comes Allison Davis, a distinguished Negro education professor. The other scholars include three psychiatrists and two law specialists. Their universities range from Texas and Harvard to Oxford and Amsterdam. From the University of Warsaw will come the first Iron Curtain visitor. Sociologist Stefan Nowakowski. And not least is Takdir Alisjahbana, celebrated philosopher of culture at Indonesia's National University, a gentle little man "wandering up and down the universe, shopping...
...sensation of the season in his first full playing year in the majors. No mere flash in the spring, Killebrew is hitting with such power that he leads the league in both home runs and runs batted in, despite an anemic batting average of .249. With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team was dropping the final game of its 18-game losing streak...