ALLEN: "What is it,Mister Benny?" BENNY: "Oh,Mister Allen,have you heard that they're making women's bathing suits out of spun glass?"

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ROCKFORD: "So what?" ALLEN: "By the time we came out, we looked like the last two passengers on Noah's Ark."

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But during the Great Depression, Fred Allen had the idea of creating a series of complete stories and situations.

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Louie Zamperini and pilot Russell Allen Phillips survived forty-seven days at sea before their raft washed up on an island.

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Listeners loved it when Jack Benny and Fred Allen would say bad things about each other on their shows.

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ALLEN: " Well,at two o'clock, our billing changes." SECRETARY: "Well, what kind of an act do you do?"

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But some of Fred Allen's funniest programs were about his supposed longtime dispute with another radio star,Jack Benny.

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Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Friday that twenty-five thousand barrelswere captured in the past twenty-four hours.

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She went on to become an English teacher, librarian and girls' basketball coach at Jay Allen High School in High Point, North Carolina.

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At the same time Fred Allen and Jack Benny were making America laugh, so was Bob Hope.

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ROCKFORD: "I gave you a break when I put you in Loew's Flatbush." ALLEN: "Some break.

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ALLEN: "Well, we are still in show business." BENNY: "Yes,and we thought you could book us."

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ALLEN: "Because I want the boys to leave Well Enough alone. How about the finale,mister .?"

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ALLEN: "How did music save your uncle's life?" BENNY: "They played the Star Spangled Banner just as he was sitting in the electric chair.

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We leave you with Eddie Allen and the band playing "Let it Snow! Let It Snow!

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"Jazzy Brass for the Holidays" is the latest recording by jazz trumpet player Eddie Allen.

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Tom Hanks returns as the voice of Woody and Tim Allen is back as Buzz.

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BENNY: "Mister Rockford, I'm Jack Benny. This is Fred Allen." ALLEN: "That's right, Mister Rockford.

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Among his subjects were Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe.

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BENNY: "Oh,all over." SECRETARY: " Well,where?" ALLEN: "Well,just -- just tell her the important dates,Jack."

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