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...have an engaging funky, blues-flavored quality, abetted by some light and witty Allison solo flights on the piano. Among the most successful is a swinging, wryly humorous ballad about a misunderstood wife-slayer at "the Parchman Farm" who passes his time "puttin' that cotton in a 'leven foot sack/With a 12-gauge shotgun at [his] back...
...Honorable Harrie Brigham Chase, of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d circuit, assisted by Bailey Aldrich '28 and Benjamin Leven, local lawyers, will preside when the Casner Equity and Scott clubs meet December 11. These will argue the constitutionally of a federal wage earning...
None of the other four candidates mentioned him in their speeches; one newspaper dubbed him "the clown candidate of the C.I.O." Two weeks before the election, hardly anybody but "Big Jim" thought he had a chance. How could anybody run ahead of 65-year-old Lieutenant Governor Leven Handy Ellis, who had served 30 years in the Legislature, had the dominant newspapers' backing and the support of mayors in all the larger towns...
...briefing on the previous days' operations at 9:15. The rest of his day is spent in conference or in driving or flying along the front with one of his two aides, Majors "Chet" Hansen and "Lew" Bridge, while his able chief of staff, Major General Leven C. Allen, keeps the operations machinery spinning. After dinner Bradley usually sees a movie (e.g., Janie, Heavenly Body, Bride by Mistake, Dragon Seed) screened by his aides in his quarters, pecks out a letter to his wife on his portable typewriter, goes to bed early...
...founded on a lesson from World War I: infantry tactics and training must be kept rigorously up to date. Prewar alumni and one time instructors include George Marshall, Omar Bradley, "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell, many another silver-starred Army name. Commandant for the last 16 months has been Major General Leven C. Allen, a non-West Pointer who led a machine-gun company in the A.E.F., has a thumping reputation as a teaching soldier. Head of the academic department is Brigadier General George H. Weems, a hard-bitten Tennesseean, who got his nickname of "Daddy" as oldest man in West Point...