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Monday, Mnroh 19. 1956 Dial 2.1661 tiie fl mo Tinrs ki pwh womb yr Dial 2.1661 Heart Ailment Killed Allen, Test Shows New York. (AP) Humorist Fred Allen, the dour and baggy-eyed fixture of radio and TV for a quarter of a century, died of a heart ailment, an autopsy showed Sunday. Allen, 61, collapsed shortly before midnight Saturday on a mid- ft CIFTS FOR town street. He was taking a nightly stroll.

An autopsy is routine in New York in cases of death without a physician in attendance. Dr. Milton Helpern, chief medical examiner, described the finding as an occlusive coronary heart disease. He said Allen had had a heart condition "over the years." Ill health and sponsors difficulties put Allen on a part-time basis WITH FASHIONABLE APPEAL on the airwaves in 1949, about the time he gave up his struggle against the TV medium. "Let someone else pioneer it," he had said with distaste.

But 2lt years ago he became a regular member of the Sunday night "What's My Line" panel on CBS-TV, replacing another comedian of the same name, Steve Allen. Sunday Steve will sub for Fred. CBS said Fred Allen's family ON LIST James Ignatius Faherty 44, one of the two Boston Brinks' robbery suspects still at large, has been added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Men" list. The FBI said Faherty ts considered extremely dangerous. (AP Wirephoto) felt he would want tiie snow to go on.

So it will, on a note of the sorrow for his passing. Allen's death was as quick as the ad libs he loosed at an ap GIVE HER r. AN EASTER BOUQUET OF preciative American public for so many years. He went into radio in 1932 after Pickets Protest Governor years as a vaudeville headliner. With him went his wife, Portland Hoffa, whose sing-song "Mr.

Allen" greeting became their trademark. She was in their apartment on W. 58th St. when Allen was strick Houston. (UP) About 30 Negro pickets, most of them young, attractive girls, paraded i.

front of the Texas Southern University campus Sunday in protest against a speech by Gov. Alan Shivers, en as he strolled along 57th St. near Seventh Ave. at 11:45 p.m. She reached his side a few minutes later, summoned by a friend who happened by as Allen collapsed.

Word quickly spread around the entertainment world and many friends sped to the police station where the body first was taken to offer help and sym Shivers was scheduled to speak at 3 p. m. (MST) at the main audi torium at ceremonies inaugurating The exquisite gift lingerie dreams are made of! Frothy clouds of nylon tricot, hued like the blooms of the lovely Mimosa. Garlands of flowers, the soft petal-lib feel of the nylon, the ribbons of pale yellow satin all so feminine, so beautiful for Easter! Dr. S.

M. Nabrit, a Georgia-born biologist, as president of TSU. The pathy to the widow. university is one of the largest Ne A solemn requiem Mass will be gro institutions in the nation. sung Tuesday at the Actor chap The Houston branch of the Na el of St.

Malachy's Roman Catho tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, headed by Negro Attorney Francis L. Wil l( '11 WfaiTs 'Kci 1 win jfj 4, Lit mill "nsi I 1 II if V-A i A 1 I i Vf i 'A 6 Hh A Si I I'll liams, voted last Thursday to boy cott the ceremonies. The protest is against Shivers' lic church in New York's theatet district. Allen will be buried at the Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in nearby Westchester County after the Mass. Beginning at 3 p.

m. Monday, the body will be on view at a private funeral home at 40 W. 58th St. Born John Florence Sullivan in Cambridge, on May 31, 1894, Allen changed his name early opposition to integration and his advocacy of interposition. Shivers was over an hour late arriving and pickets walked slowly up and down before the mam en- trance to the university.

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detaiil of eight city policemen were assigned to control traffic, but One day a stage manager walked out onto the stage and the policemen were not in evi dence an hour before the speech was to begin. The pickets were under the direc tion of Mrs. Lulu White, state di- oor ractor of branches of the NAACP in Texas. She instructed pickets not to talk to anyone, nor to each other and asked him how he had learned his art. Embarrassed, the young Allen quipped: "I took a correspondence course In baggage smashing." The crack brought down the house and started him off as a comedian.

He toured the vaudeville circuits of the United States and Australia, at $25 a week, for 10 years, gradually replacing juggling and a ventriloquist's dummy with routines based on his dry humor. In 1922, during the first of several appearances on Broadway, to stay 15 feet apart. They carried signs, proclaiming Shivers as a "Race Baiter." An other sign said: "TSU, Now Show ing Hypocrisy in a High Place, Starring Allan Shivers." Another sign said: "Hypocrisy, the Princt pal Speaker." One sign carried figures: "1828, John Calhoun, Interposition, 1956, Allan Shivers, Born Too Late." he met Miss Hoffa. They were married in 1928. They went into radio together in 1932 and also made several movies, including "Thanks a Million" and "Sally, Irene and Mary." Allen also wrote a book, published in 1954, that had a wide sale.

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