Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, Mass. 46 years ago, Allen during his early career was known as Paul Huckle. Progressing onward and upward in vaudeville, he did a turn as Fred St. James and Freddie James before he finally became Fred Allen. As he went along he added patter to his act, acquired a facility for playing the banjo and clarinet. Sometimes he even broke into song. He did his stuff all over the U. S., spent the 1915-16 season touring Australia. He was fond of old vaudeville standbys, worked up laughs when his audience was cold...
...simple expedient of upping the normal corporate income-tax rate by 3.1%. During this rewriting, the Treasury took a belatedly renewed interest. Into a committee room full of Senators, dizzied by mental arithmetic and preparing to take a final vote, strode Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Lawrence Sullivan. He told the Senators that the Treasury would have to disown their bill, suggested they start all over again. Sore, the Senators sent for Henry Morgenthau, who con firmed his assistant's verdict. Sorer, the Senators defiantly reported their version anyhow...
Pride and Prejudice (Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland; TIME, July...
...octet. Paul Laval, an Italo-Frenchman (born Joseph Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues Composer W. C. Handy, Violinist Kurt Polnarioff of the Pittsburgh Symphony (with his hair down), Conductor Frank Black (with a hot harpsichord). Official singer is pretty, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore, 23, who was born Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn., changed her name because of puns. When old Composer...
Backs: Gus Bigwood, Ed Buckley, Dave Goldthwatte, Mel Gordon, Ray Guild, Cliff Helman, Caleb Loring, Bill Lyle, Ted Lyman, George O'Sullivan, Guy Meli, George MacClellan, Greely Summers, Ephraim Takvorian, Rod Townsend, Henry Vander , Morton Waldstein, Ross Whittier, Nat Young...