Word: olsen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution: a one-man U.S. gag factory established in London to turn out material for touring entertainers. The man chosen was serious, curly-haired, stocky Hal Block-who resembles Actor Edward G. Robinson. A University of Chicago graduate (1934), he was a scriptwriter for Burns & Allen and coauthor of Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun. U.S.O. installed Block at BBC, which pays him a fraction of his previous earnings...
Tech. 5 Oscar A. Olsen has been directing the personnel work. Sgt. William M. Chesebrough, message center chief, has been boosting everybody's spirits by giving snappy service with mail and messages. Supply Sgt. Carmen J. Riccelli has learned every man's name and has replaced many a torn and tattered garment with garb more suited to students at Harvard. Tech. 4 Robert W. Leonard, Cpl. Roger H. Potter, Tech. 5 George G. Vaughan, Pfe. Harold E. Bloomberg, Tech. 5 A. A. Dickson, and Pvt. John O. Scheuermann are others who have kept the ball rolling smoothly since the students...
Western's process was developed by its technical department headed by Dr. Fred Olsen, formerly in charge of research at Picatinny Arsenal. Called one of the few basically new ideas since the Chinese invented black powder, the process cuts manufacturing time from a normal 15 days to three...
Among dance teams the winners were childlike, ingratiating Rosario & Antonio, now on Broadway with Olsen & Johnson's Sons O'Fun. Rosario & Antonio (only 21 and 20 respectively) danced as children in the market places of Seville and Granada, later toured Europe and South America, reached Manhattan two and a half years ago as a specialty act at the Waldorf-Astoria's Sert Room. Their flashing gyrations and intricate footwork so excited their first-night audience that it buried them in flowers. Known as Los Chavalillos Sevillanos ("The little kids from Seville"), first-cousins Rosario & Antonio now want...
...Nunan's 61. In third place with 57 votes was Michael J. De Leo. Two hundred and seventy-three men cast votes for the seven Secretary-nominees listed on the ballot. Election Results Class Secretary Thomas Richard Nunan, Jr. 61 Permanent Class Committee Dean McDonald Hennessey 148 Sidney Olsen Smith, Jr. 148 Richard Watson Mechem 146 Peter Garland 142 James Edmund McNulty, Jr. 128 Donald Westgate Richards 119 John Winters Fisher 116 Frank David Bixler 103 Robert Treat Paine Storer...