Fred Allen's December 30, 1936 radio broadcast included a humorous wrapup of the year's least important events, including a supposed interview with the man who " invented a negative craze " on April 1st: " Ramrod Dank ... the first man to coin a Knock Knock.

* October 23 – Fred Allen's radio comedy show debuts on CBS.

During the 1930s, he was the orchestra leader on several radio programs, including Fred Allen's show and his own The Ferde Grofé Show.

Allen's previous sponsor, Bristol-Myers ' Ipana toothpaste and Sal Hepatica laxative, decided to cease their tandem sponsorship of Allen's successful hour, first known as Town Hall Tonight and then, for its final season, The Fred Allen Show.

Red and his announcer Rod O ' Connor began to talk about Fred Allen being censored during Allen's NBC show the previous week ; they were silenced for 15 seconds.

Fred Allen's first taste of radio came while he and Portland Hoffa waited for a promised slot in a new Arthur Hammerstein musical.

The Allen's Alley cast ( l to r ): Fred Allen, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Peter Donald, Parker Fennelly.

The " Allen's Alley " stereotypes make some cringe, as Allen biographer Robert Taylor noted ( in Fred Allen: His Life and Wit ), but others find them lancing more than lauding stereotypes, letting listeners make up their own minds about how foolish they could be.

A comedy series, Fred Allen's Sketchbook, did not catch on.

A tireless letter writer, his letters were edited by his wife into the publication of Fred Allen's Letters in 1965.

by Joe McCarthy, Fred Allen's Letters ( New York: Doubleday, 1965 )

* Alan Havig, Fred Allen's Radio Comedy ( Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989 ).

* Fred Allen Fred Allen's Radio, television, and film appearances

The program was developed by Sylvester " Pat " Weaver, a programming vice-president at NBC who had started his career as a production assistant on Fred Allen's radio show Town Hall Tonight in the 1930s.

In the autumn of 1942, he also became the announcer for Fred Allen's Texaco Star Theater show on the CBS network, but a personality conflict between Allen and Godfrey led to his early release from the show after only six weeks.

* Fred Allen ( Joe McCarthy, editor ), Fred Allen's Letters

Upon Fred Allen's death in 1956, Cerf became the anchor panelist who would always introduce Daly.

His radio work included the role of Solomon Levy on Abie's Irish Rose ; as the " Allen's Alley " resident poet Falstaff Openshaw on Fred Allen's NBC Radio show, and later on his own five-minute show, Falstaff's Fables, on the American Broadcasting Company ; as Officer Clancey and other occasional roles on the NBC Radio show Duffy's Tavern ; as Shrevey the driver on several years of The Shadow ; as Chester Riley's boss on the NBC Radio show The Life of Riley, and as Italian immigrant Pasquale in Life with Luigi on CBS Radio, and various supporting roles on Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, also on CBS Radio.

He returned to radio as a regular performer on Fred Allen's Texaco Star Theater program ( 1940 – 1942 ).

The Eagles held fund-raising dinners, the team made individual contributions, and Fred and Kim continued to bravely battle this disease.

Fred and Adele's mother suggested they change their name to " Astaire ," as she felt " Austerlitz " sounded as though it could be the name of a battle.

Austerlitz sounded too much like a battle: The roots of Fred Astaire family in Europe, Editrice UNI Service, 2009.

The Prime Kang then attempts to manipulate the Avengers from a time vortex and later encounters the Fantastic Four in a bid to capture Mantis and use her to defeat a Celestial and defeat the other Kangs, while " Fred " is incinerated by a Nebula-possessed Human Torch during a later battle with the Fantastic Four in the timestream.

Super Chicken usually begins their adventures with the battle cry, " Quick, Fred, to the Super Coop ," and when Fred comments on his latest injury, responds with a variation of the theme, " You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.

John Ford cut the film's climactic battle scene short when Fred Kennedy, a veteran stuntman and bit player, was killed in a horse fall.

Issue # 9 reveals that the Illyria and Fred essences have been struggling for dominance over their shared body, and that Spike has been trying to suppress Fred's manifestations ( even going so far as to ask Angel for help ), and admits that he would have kept Illyria away from the battle had he known Wesley was going to be present.

Late 1991, the dispute over Scientology's tax-exempt status began to resolve through high-level meetings between David Miscavige and the then Commissioner of the IRS, Fred Goldberg, who encouraged a final resolution of the legal battle.

This policy of institutionalized racism in OSU athletics would come to a head in another of the school's major sports when in 1968 OSU football player Fred Milton would clash with Head Coach Dee Andros over grooming policy — a battle reduced to racial terms as a struggle of black athletes against white coaches and administrators.

This Fred would gain infamy when, from 1987 to the early 1990s, he would pretend to be Cobra Commander, donning the silver " battle armor " that the action figures introduced in the late 1980s.

After a bitter rivalry that lasted for three months with Siaki, the two were slated to battle on September 4 at the 2008 Fred Ward Memorial.

Fred also presents the commander with a suit of samurai like battle armor.

Raptor and Fred bury the body of the Commander, and Fred makes plans to take the place of the Commander, using the battle armor, and seizing the reins of power.

At this point, Fred dons the battle armor and boards the Pogo, taking off to fight the choppers and leaving Captain Minh to his death.

He never appeared in the cartoon series, and the figure sporting the battle armor that Fred wore in 1987 was marketed as Cobra Commander, and Fred is never mentioned on the filecard that comes with the figure.

As they were riding toward the Indian village prior to the battle, Reynolds, who never drank, asked interpreter Fred Gerard for some whiskey.

In 1976, a re-creation of the first submarine ever used in battle, the American Turtle was designed by Joseph Leary and constructed by Fred Frese as a Bicentennial project.

First, at the Masters, Fred Couples wins after final-round battle with Raymond Floyd.

After they had paid all his debts and the funeral costs, Ralph and Fred had some fourteen thousand dollars, as I remember, with which to pay the bequests.

With a wary eye on the farmer's bull, Fred Somers of Montpelier and Mr. St. John marked the field with a red table cloth.

This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

Nineteen-year-old rookie first baseman Fred Merkle, later to become one of the best players at his position in the league, was on first base, with teammate Moose McCormick on third with two out and the game tied.

Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term Big Bang during a 1949 radio broadcast.

In their second terms, Michael Dukakis ( governor ) and Fred Salvucci ( secretary of transportation ) came up with the strategy of tying the two projects together — thereby combining the project that the business community supported with the project that they and the City of Boston supported.

Chaplin's years with the Fred Karno company had a formative effect on him as an actor and filmmaker ; Simon Louvish writes that the company was his " training ground ".

They then had a mediocre record for six seasons and were ruined by a trade war with the Union Association ( UA ) in 1884, when its three best players ( Fred Dunlap, Jack Glasscock, and Jim McCormick ) jumped to the UA after being offered higher salaries.

Stan and Hilda Ogden were often at the centre of overtly funny storylines, with other comic characters including Eddie Yeats ( Geoffrey Hughes ), Fred Gee ( Fred Feast ) and Jack Duckworth ( William Tarmey ) all making their first appearances during the decade.

Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

" The live line-up was completed with Louis Clark and Dave Morgan ( guitar, synthesisers, vocals ) playing the string parts on synthesisers, and " Fred the Robot " voicing the " Prologue " and " Epilogue ".

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

An interview with Dr. S. Fred Singer, Environment & Climate News, February 2001, accessed May 13, 2010.

The post-July 1978 military regime led by General Fred Akuffo attempted to deal with Ghana's economic problems by making small changes in the overvalued cedi and by restraining government spending and monetary growth.

At this time, he worked up dance routines with his younger brother Fred in order to earn prize money in local talent contests, and they also performed in local nightclubs.

In Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) – which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946 – Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire – for whom he had the greatest admiration – in the famous " The Babbitt and the Bromide " challenge dance routine.

This year also saw him appear as guest star with his brother Fred in the celebrated " I Love to Go Swimmin ' with Wimmen " routine in Deep in My Heart.

and subsequently directed and co-starred with his friend Fred Astaire in the sequel That's Entertainment, Part II ( 1976 ).

" In particular, he wanted to create a completely different image from that associated with Fred Astaire, not least because he believed his physique didn't suit such refined elegance: " I used to envy his cool aristocratic style, so intimate and contained.