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Then Ed Kennedy, A.P. boss in Europe and veteran of 13 years with the A.P., got word that the Germans had announced the surrender over the Flensburg radio. He tried to reach Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's bumbling press chief, finally got to the chief U.S. censor. "I give you warning now,'' said Ed Kennedy, "that I am going to release the story. I see no further reason for SHAEF to withhold...
Noisiest U.S. fish are the croakers, which cruise in racketing schools. They have special muscles to make their swim-bladders resonate. The hogfish grinds its teeth. The spot gives a raucous honk. The sea-catfish makes a noise like a tom-tom. The searobin cackles, while the toadfish toots a musical warning to leave its eggs alone...
Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF's public-relations director, won the Army's Legion of Merit-but not for balling up the V-E day announcement. Said General Eisenhower: the "sound judgment constantly demonstrated by this officer reflected great credit upon the U.S. Army...
...censorship, was slow in coming out. On Sunday afternoon at an airport outside Paris, 16 newsmen had been assembled-on 15 minutes' notice-and told they were to cover an important out-of-town assignment. After their big C-47 was in the air, Brigadier General Frank A. ("Honk") Allen Jr., SHAEF press chief, shouted above the engines' roar to the 16: "Gentlemen, we are going ... to cover the signing of the peace. . . . This story is off the record until the respective . . . Governments announce [it]. I therefore pledge . . . you on your honor not to communicate the results...
There's a Peace On. General Allen wasted no time. A Regular Army soldier who fought with distinction in both World Wars I & II, Honk Allen has a knowl edge of newspapering that could be put into a K-ration container and still rattle around. He cavalierly announced that re porters had been present at the surrender "by the courtesy of SHAEF." And, using Kennedy's misdeed as a shillelagh, he an nounced that henceforth all newsmen in Europe would be let in on the Army's confidences chiefly because "I have engaged to be personally responsible...