Steve Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0012

Collection Organization

The Steve Allen Papers contains manuscripts for five books, 89 speeches, and 451 articles. Of particular interest is "The Steve Allen Biography" (Box 10), which includes a complete listing of television shows and appearances along with listings of stars that appeared on his shows and recorded or performed his songs. Also of interest are the scripts for the Emmy award-winning PBS-TV series, Meeting of Minds. In addition, the collection includes professional photographs, promotional materials, and certificates and awards. Oversized and non-print materials are located in Boxes 12 and 18 to 24 of the collection.

Researchers interested in the many facets of Steve Allen will find this collection invaluable.

Manuscripts, 1939, 1951-1990, undated

 Series – Multiple Containers

This series includes manuscripts for five books, 89 speeches, several poems, and 451 articles by Allen. Arranged chronologically by date of work, as indexed by the donor.
Dates
Creation: 1939, 1951-1990, undated

Not All Your Laughter, Not All Your Tears, 1962

 Sub-Series – Box 1
Dates
Creation: 1962

Typed manuscript, chapters 1-7, 1962

 File – Box 1, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1962

Typed manuscript, chapters 8-12, 1962

 File – Box 1, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: 1962

Typed manuscript, chapters 13-16, 1962

 File – Box 1, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: 1962

Typed manuscript, chapters 17-20, 1962

 File – Box 1, Folder: 4
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Creation: 1962

Typed manuscript, chapters 21-23, 1962

 File – Box 1, Folder: 5
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Creation: 1962

Typed manuscript, chapters 24-end, 1962

 File – Box 1, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: 1962

Rip-Off: A Look at Corruption In America, 1979

 Sub-Series – Box 1
Dates
Creation: 1979

Typed manuscript, chapters 1-4, 1979

 File – Box 1, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: 1979

Typed manuscript, chapters 5-10, 1979

 File – Box 1, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: 1979

Typed manuscript, chapters 11-end, 1979

 File – Box 1, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: 1979

Talk Show Murders, 1982

 Sub-Series – Box 2
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript, chapters 1-5, 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript, chapters 6-11, 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript, chapters 12-16, 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 3
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Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript, chapters 17-end, 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: 1982

More Funny People, vol. 1, 1982

 Sub-Series – Box 2
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript (includes: Abbott and Costello and Fred Allen), 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript (includes: Jack Benny, Milton Berle, George Carlin, and Tim Conway), 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: 1982

More Funny People, vol. 2, 1982

 Sub-Series – Box 2
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript (includes: Jackie Gleason, Bob Hope), 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript (includes: Laurel and Hardy, Jerry Lewis), 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: 1982

More Funny People, vol. 3, 1982

 Sub-Series – Box 2
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript (includes: Martha Raye, Alan Sherman, Red Skelton), 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: 1982

More Funny People, vol. 4, 1982

 Sub-Series – Box 2
Dates
Creation: 1982

Edited typed manuscript (includes: The Old Gang, and Conclusion), 1982

 File – Box 2, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: 1982

Meeting of Minds, vol. 1, 1978

 Sub-Series – Box 3
Dates
Creation: 1978

Introduction and script no. 1 with Theodore Roosevelt, Cleopatra, Aquinas, Thomas Paine, 1978

 File – Box 3, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1978

Script no. 2 with Theodore Roosevelt, Cleopatra, Aquinas, Thomas Paine, 1978

 File – Box 3, Folder: 2
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Creation: 1978

Script no. 3 with Ulysses S. Grant, Marie Antoinette, Karl Marx, Sir Thomas Moore, 1978

 File – Box 3, Folder: 3
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Creation: 1978

Script no. 4 with Ulysses S. Grant, Marie Antoinette, Karl Marx, Sir Thomas Moore, 1978

 File – Box 3, Folder: 4
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Creation: 1978

Script no. 5 with Atilla the Hun, Galileo, Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, 1978

 File – Box 3, Folder: 5
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Creation: 1978

Script no. 6 with Atilla the Hun, Galileo, Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, 1978

 File – Box 3, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: 1978

Meeting of Minds, vol. 2, 1979

 Sub-Series – Box 3
Dates
Creation: 1979

Script no. 7 with Frederick Douglass, Dowager Empress Lzu Hsi, Marchese de Bonsana Cesare Beccaria, Marquis Donatien Francise de Sade, 1979

 File – Box 3, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: 1979

Script no. 8 with Frederick Douglass, Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, Marchese de Bonsana Cesare Beccaria, Marquis Donatien Francoise de Sade, 1979

 File – Box 3, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: 1979

Script no. 9 with Martin Luther, Voltaire, Plato, Florence Nightengale, 1979

 File – Box 3, Folder: 9
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Creation: 1979

Script no. 10 with Martin Luther, Voltaire, Plato, Florence Nightengale, 1979

 File – Box 3, Folder: 10
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Creation: 1979

Script no. 11 with Sir Francis Bacon, Socrates, Emiliano Zapata, Susan B. Anthony, 1979

 File – Box 3, Folder: 11
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Creation: 1979

Script no. 12 with Sir Francis Bacon, Socrates, Emiliano Zapata, Susan B. Anthony, 1979

 File – Box 3, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: 1979

Murder on the Glitter Box, 1989

 Sub-Series – Box 4
Dates
Creation: 1989

Typed manuscript with corrections, chapters 1-14, 1989

 File – Box 4, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1989

Typed manuscript with corrections, chapters 15-29, 1989

 File – Box 4, Folder: 2
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Creation: 1989

Typed manuscript with corrections, chapters 30-44, 1989

 File – Box 4, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: 1989

Typed manuscript with corrections, chapters 45-end, 1989

 File – Box 4, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: 1989

Articles and Poems, 1939-1957

 Sub-Series – Box 4
Dates
Creation: 1939-1957

"In the Wake of the News", The Chicago Daily Tribune (poetry), 1939

 File – Box 4, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: 1939

"See-ing Stars with Steve Allen As First Subject, Steve picks Man Who Like Steve"(article), undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 6
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Creation: undated

"See-ing Stars with Steve Allen As His Second Subject, Steve Selects a British Lady of Great Charm and Talent" (article), undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 7
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Creation: undated

"Man For Man--A Multidisciplinary Workshop on Affecting Man's Social and Psychological Nature Through Community Action" (summary of the workshop proceedings by Steve Allen; Charles C. Thomas, publisher), undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 8
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Creation: undated

"When Love Comes Your Way After One Marriage Failure, It's a Question Whether to Succumb or Not…" (article), undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 9
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Creation: undated

"Praise Be To TV!" (article), undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 10
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Creation: undated

"Studio Audiences", Herald Tribune TV and Radio Magazine, 1951

 File – Box 4, Folder: 11
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Creation: 1951

"How Does an Unknown Get a Song Published", Playbill Magazine, 1951

 File – Box 4, Folder: 12
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Creation: 1951

"Hold That Benefit", Variety, 1951

 File – Box 4, Folder: 13
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Creation: 1951

"Notes on TV", Cue, 1951

 File – Box 4, Folder: 14
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Creation: 1951

"Steve Allen: TV's Jazz Lover", Metronome, 1952?

 File – Box 4, Folder: 15
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Creation: 1952?

"Speaking of Song-Writing", Bronxville Prevue, 1951

 File – Box 4, Folder: 16
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Creation: 1951

"Songs For Sale", undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 17
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Creation: undated

"See-ing Stars With Steve Allen CBS Star Bows to a Great Lady of Stage and Screen" (Vivien Leigh), undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 18
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Creation: undated

"Look and Listen With 'One Dialer"', by C.J. Ingram; guest column by Steve Allen, undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 19
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Creation: undated

"Steve Allen, Himself", undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 20
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Creation: undated

"Broadway, Here Comes a TV Comic", undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 21
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Creation: undated

"Says Steve Allen: Maybe TV's Going Too Far", TV Today, 1952

 File – Box 4, Folder: 22
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Creation: 1952

"Songs For Sale -Starring -Steve Allen", Chicago, Downbeat (23 articles), 1952-1953

 File – Box 4, Folder: 23
Dates
Creation: 1952-1953

"Open Letter From Steve Allen", Coral Records News, 1953

 File – Box 4, Folder: 24
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Creation: 1953

"The Conquest of Jayne Meadows: A Most Unusual Autobiography", undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 25
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Creation: undated

"That Studio Audience" (by John Crosby) by Steve Allen, guest writer; Herald Tribune, 1954

 File – Box 4, Folder: 26
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Creation: 1954

"That Studio Audience" (by John Crosby) by Steve Allen, guest writer; New York Herald Tribune, 1954

 File – Box 4, Folder: 27
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Creation: 1954

"Giving Autographs Can Have Its Exciting Moments", Lewiston Montana Daily News, 1954

 File – Box 4, Folder: 28
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Creation: 1954

"Long Island", Long Island Daily Press, 1954

 File – Box 4, Folder: 29
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Creation: 1954

"Who Wrought the Iron?", undated

 File – Box 4, Folder: 30
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Creation: undated

"Here and There", Cheyenne Eagle (Wyoming), 1954

 File – Box 4, Folder: 31
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Creation: 1954

Untitled Food Merchants Advocate, 1955

 File – Box 4, Folder: 32
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Creation: 1955

"Steve Allen Replies to upstate Grocer's Letter", Food Merchants Advocate, 1955

 File – Box 4, Folder: 33
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Creation: 1955

"Envying the Dead", Saturday Review of Literature, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 34
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Creation: 1956

"Please Mr. Chairman Pleads Steve Allen", News Register (Wheeling, West Virginia), 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 35
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Creation: 1956

"Entertaining You", Glamour, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 36
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Creation: 1956

"On Becoming Thirty", Cue Magazine, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 37
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Creation: 1956

"Summer Storm", The Village Voice (poetry), 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 38
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Creation: 1956

"The Secret", Collier's, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 39
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Creation: 1956

"Pride of Authorship", American Poetry Magazine, vol. 37, no. 3 (poetry), 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 40
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Creation: 1956

"The Girls On the Tenth Floor", Esquire: The Magazine for Men, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 41
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Creation: 1956

"What's So Funny?" (pamphlet), 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 42
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Creation: 1956

"Television and Radio", New York Herald Tribune, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 43
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Creation: 1956

"Mr. Cerf's Joke Storehouse", New York Herald Tribune (book review), 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 44
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Creation: 1956

"My Wife Jayne", TV Guide, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 45
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Creation: 1956

"Ratings Are Overrated", New York Herald Tribune, TV and Radio Magazine, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 46
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Creation: 1956

"How To Play the Piano", Coronet, 1956

 File – Box 4, Folder: 47
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Creation: 1956

"Steve Allen" by John Bailey, 1000 Jokes, 1956-1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 48
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Creation: 1956-1957

"The Road To Miltown" (review), Saturday Review, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 49
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Creation: 1957

"Philosophic Lunacy", Saturday Review, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 50
Dates
Creation: 1957

"Steve Allen Takes the Stand", Writer's Digest, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 51
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Creation: 1957

"Steve Allen Comments on Series", Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 52
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Creation: 1957

"Who Says Comedians are Unhappy?", This Week, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 53
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Creation: 1957

"Steve Allen's Scrambled Book List", Author's Guild Bulletin, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 54
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Creation: 1957

Untitled Dance Magazine, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 55
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Creation: 1957

"Three Mixed-Up Little Pigs", Teen Magazine, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 56
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Creation: 1957

"The Buried Caesar" (letter to the editor), Time Magazine, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 57
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Creation: 1957

"A Prize For Mr. Big" (re: John Q. Public, anyone's fall guy), Argosy Magazine, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 58
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Creation: 1957

"Jack and the Real Flip Beanstalk", Teen Magazine, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 59
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Creation: 1957

"Steve Allen Ridicules TV Awards", TV Guide, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 60
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Creation: 1957

"Everybody's an Expert", New York Herald Tribune, Television and Radio, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 61
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Creation: 1957

"Joe Shulman is Dead", Down Beat Magazine, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 62
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Creation: 1957

"When Humor is not Funny", "The Voice of Broadway", Journal American, 1956?

 File – Box 4, Folder: 63
Dates
Creation: 1956?

"Steve Allen's Almanac Series", Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1956-1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 64
Dates
Creation: 1956-1957

"The Vanishing Comedian", The Atlantic Monthly, 1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 65
Dates
Creation: 1957

Index of articles published, 1951-1957

 File – Box 4, Folder: 66
Dates
Creation: 1951-1957

Articles and Poems, 1958-1963

 Sub-Series – Box 5
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Creation: 1958-1963

"State of the Nation's Humor, Little Cause for Concern", New York Times, 1958?

 File – Box 5, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1958?

"Jack O'Brian and the Art of Criticism", The Village Voice, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 2
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Creation: 1958

"Steve Allen has the Answers When the Questions Concern His Wife, Jayne Meadows", Charm Magazine, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 3
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Creation: 1958

"The Man Who Reads Dictionaries", Webster's advertisement, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 4
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Creation: 1958

"Steve Allen Hits Back, Says 'All TV People Know Score on O'Brian'", The Village Voice, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 5
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Creation: 1958

"Steve Allen and Emmy", Letters the Nation, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 6
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Creation: 1958

Marie Torre Reports "Allen Rates Rivals and Critics of Television" (guest columnist), New York Herald Tribune, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 7
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Creation: 1958

"Steve Allen Scrambled Book List", Coronet, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 8
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Creation: 1958

"Jewish People Are Funny", The Jewish Digest (excerpt from Funny Men), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 9
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Creation: 1958

"Steve Allen Answers a Query From the South", Village Voice (re: Gov. Folsom), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 10
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Creation: 1958

"Steve Allen Sees Diversions From TV Good Sign", Montgomery Advertiser (re: Gov. Folsom and the South), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 11
Dates
Creation: 1958

"The Plight of the TV Comic", Esquire Magazine for Men (Re: An interview with Steve Allen, Mort Sahl, Wally Cox, George Axelrod, Peter Ustinov), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: 1958

"Let's Keep Video From Getting Worse", Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 13
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Creation: 1958

"Allen vs. Grace", Miami Florida News, 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 14
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Creation: 1958

"A Small Forward", Saturday Review (re: Forward of a donation of $100.00 to Earle Reynolds), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 15
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Creation: 1958

"Little Cause for Concern", The New York Times Magazine (re: in grim period, American humor still exists), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 16
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Creation: 1958

"Everybody Hates David Starbuck", Playboy (re: Fictional story), 1958

 File – Box 5, Folder: 17
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Creation: 1958

".....A Full Share of Love.....", TV and Radio Magazine (re: Birth of William Christopher), 1958-1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 18
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Creation: 1958-1959

Forward, Mad Forever (Crown Publishers), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 19
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Creation: 1959

"Steve Allen Says…'So What' ...", TV Radio Magazine (re: Live television), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 20
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Creation: 1959

"The Italian Voices", Down Beat Magazine (short story), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 21
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Creation: 1959

"Semanticsville", The Jazz Review, 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 22
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Creation: 1959

"This Is My Story", Look Magazine, 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 23
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Creation: 1959

"It's Easy to be Funny", Look Magazine (re: an unusual autobiography), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 24
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Creation: 1959

"The Conquest of Jayne Meadows", Look Magazine (re: an unusual autobiography), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 25
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Creation: 1959

"Prayer Efficacy, The Open Forum", The Churchman, 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 26
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Creation: 1959

"John Crosby--Humor in Public Life", Herald Tribune (Steve Allen writes column while Crosby is on vacation), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 27
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Creation: 1959

"Jazz Mass at St. Paul's", Down Beat (poetry), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 28
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Creation: 1959

"Police Cards", Herald Tribune (Re: Disgrace of "police card" situation), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 29
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Creation: 1959

Untitled, Progressive World (Re: Adlai Stevenson), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 30
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Creation: 1959

"Defense", Jazz Review (Re: Ralph Gleason's review), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 31
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Creation: 1959

Untitled (Written for the evening dedicated to Health for Peace and to honor Max E. Youngstein. Hotel Biltmore, New York City), 1959

 File – Box 5, Folder: 32
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Creation: 1959

"Why Not?" by Dayton Allen (forward by Steve Allen), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 33
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Creation: 1960

"The Best Kind of Prayer", Television star, NBC, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 34
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Creation: 1960

"Steve Allen Goes West--Fearlessly", Monrovia News Post (re: Hollywood), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 35
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Creation: 1960

"Steve Allen Discusses the Smear Against Sane", National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, The Realist (re: Allen's membership in Sane and accusation of being a communist), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 36
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Creation: 1960

"The Minds That Didn't Meet on NBC", The Gazette and Daily (York, PA), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 37
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Creation: 1960

"The Trouble with My Business", The American Weekly (Re: low-quality television programs), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 38
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Creation: 1960

Morality and Nuclear War booklet, Steve Allen as guest speaker for the Unitarian Universalist Consolidation Conference at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, CA (reprint of speech), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 39
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Creation: 1960

"To a Gentleman in Brooklyn--A letter from Steve Allen", Petal Paper (re: Steve Allen being a communist), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 40
Dates
Creation: 1960

Index of articles published, 1958-1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 41
Dates
Creation: 1958-1960

American Natives by Erich Sokol (introduction by Steve Allen), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 42
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Creation: 1960

"The Secret I Can No Longer Live with. A Disgraceful Confession by Steve Allen, a Man the People Trusted", Redbook, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 43
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Creation: 1960

"Mr. Allen Explains, To the Editor", National Review (re: Sane), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 44
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Creation: 1960

"Failure of Nerve", The New Leader (Re: The New Failures of the U.S. Nerve book review), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 45
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Creation: 1960

"'Meeting of Minds' Steve Allen. The widely discussed symposium on punishment", Triad, vol. 1, no. 2 (re: Aristotle, Dostoevski, Hegel, Darrow Montaigne), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 46
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Creation: 1960

"Letter to Mike Connolly", The Hollywood Reporter (re: disarmament), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 47
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Creation: 1960

"Allen Protests", Chicago's American (re: nuclear war), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 48
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Creation: 1960

"Steve Allen, on Behalf of Sane, Makes Suggestions for Platform", Hearings of the Democratic National Committee, Los Angeles, Calif., July 7, 1960, and the Republican National Committee, Chicago, IL, July 21, 1960, The Petal Paper, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 49
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Creation: 1960

"The Unsponsored Mind", Saturday Review (Re: Article previews from "Mark it and strike it"), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 50
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Creation: 1960

"Steve Allen Replies", Human Events (Re: Steve Allen Jokes about Freedom), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 51
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Creation: 1960

"Stevieorienio Loses Sensayuma --Denies Favoring Flouridation --Says He is Not Red, Pinko or Dupe --Editor Says Allen is Dupe, Dumb, Dope or Just Plain Political Jackass", Hollywood Close-Up, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 52
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Creation: 1960

"Steve Allen Defends His Job on College Advisory Board", San Fernando Valley Times (re: Valley State College and education), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 53
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Creation: 1960

"How About That? A Psycho-Investigation of Steve Allen", The Alpha Rho Journal, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 54
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Creation: 1960

"Jokes I Couldn't Tell on TV", Redbook, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 55
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Creation: 1960

"What Can We Do", Progressive World (re: to halt trend to war), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 56
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Creation: 1960

"Nuclear Disarming", The New Leader, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 57
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Creation: 1960

"Steve Allen Fights Back", The Nation (re: advertisement on the atom bomb), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 58
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Creation: 1960

"Juke Box Investigation", The San Francisco Star (poetry), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 59
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Creation: 1960

"The Moral Question", The Indianapolis News (re: nuclear war and testing), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 60
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Creation: 1960

"Neither for President", The Realist (re: 1960 election), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 61
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Creation: 1960

"Steve Allen Spoke Briefly on --I am an American Day", The Petal Paper, 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 62
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Creation: 1960

"My Chicago Romance", Chicago Tribune (Re: sixth grade dream girl of Steve Allen's seven years later), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 63
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Creation: 1960

"Convent Images", America (Re: Image projection of Kennedy and Nixon), 1960

 File – Box 5, Folder: 64
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Creation: 1960

"Wrong Party", Way of St. Francis, 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 65
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Creation: 1961

"Morality and Nuclear War : A Grave Issue", Los Gatos Times - Saratoga Observer, 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 66
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Creation: 1961

"Allen's View", Los Angeles Times (Re: More atomic bomb makers, editorial comment), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 67
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Creation: 1961

"What Women Don't Know About Men" by McFarland and Briggs, Ladies Home Journal (Re: Panel discussion with Steve Allen, Robert Cummings, Tony Curtis, etc.), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 68
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Creation: 1961

"Currently Speaking…Jeanne Markham Keating, Opinions of Mr. Allen", Van Nuys News (re: Nuclear radiation), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 69
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Creation: 1961

"God and the H-Bomb", New York Times (Re: Religious leaders speak out against nuclear weapons), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 70
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Creation: 1961

God and the H-Bomb, edited by Donald Keys, foreword by Steve Allen, 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 71
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Creation: 1961

"Speak Up! It's Good For You", This Week Magazine (re: express feelings, democratic right), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 72
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Creation: 1961

"Steve Allen Speaks to Breakthru", Breakthru, no. 9 (re: question/answers about humor), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 73
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Creation: 1961

"The Playboy Panel: Hip Comics and the New Humor", Playboy (re: Panelists: Steve Allen, Lenny Bruce, Bill Dana, Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols, Mort Sahl and Jonathan Winters), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 74
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Creation: 1961

"Is Waving Necessary", Morehead News-Times (North Carolina) (re:TV wavers), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 75
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Creation: 1961

"Let's Have Film Festivals", America (re: film festivals vs. television), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 76
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Creation: 1961

"An Overlooked Weapon", America (re: Famous figures speaking to the people about world affairs), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 77
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Creation: 1961

"A Writer Reports An Error", The Evening Bulletin (re: Priest defends Birch Society), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 78
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Creation: 1961

"Steve Allen Applauds Psychological Stress", News-Press (re: social maladjustment), undated

 File – Box 5, Folder: 79
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Creation: undated

"Steve Allen Answers 10 Questions The Village Square", The Village Voice (re: career in television), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 80
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Creation: 1961

"Just for Variety", Daily Variety (re: Talent development for television), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 81
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Creation: 1961

"The Funnyman and His Audience", Dallas News (re: future comics), 1961

 File – Box 5, Folder: 82
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Creation: 1961

"Allen Lauds Pope John's Mater et Magistra Herald of Socially Conscious Catholicism", New University News (Chicago, IL), 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 83
Dates
Creation: 1962

"A Redbook Dialogue: Steve Allen and Pat Boone", Redbook Magazine (re: Liberal vs. conservative), 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 84
Dates
Creation: 1962

"An Interview with Steve Allen", The Critic: A Magazine about Christian Culture (re: comedy, music, reading, communism, war, etc.), 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 85
Dates
Creation: 1962

"Allen Lauds Book, cites 'Weakness' of Nation's Press", Santa Monica Evening Outlook, TV section (re: US press), 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 86
Dates
Creation: 1962

"The Return of the Midnight Master" by C.D.C., Los Angeles Magazine, 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 87
Dates
Creation: 1962

"The Golden Key", Careers in Broadcasting (re: Young people in America), undated

 File – Box 5, Folder: 88
Dates
Creation: undated

"To the Editor: Another Banner for the Pole", National Review (re: Income tax reduction for self-reliant individualists), 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 89
Dates
Creation: 1962

"The Wave", Fathom, vol. 1, no. 2 (poetry), 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 90
Dates
Creation: 1962

"Peeping Toms", Newsweek (re: Johnny Carson, Steve Allen shows), 1963

 File – Box 5, Folder: 91
Dates
Creation: 1963

"How to Attack a Liberal", National Review (re: Dealing with liberal entertainers), 1963

 File – Box 5, Folder: 92
Dates
Creation: 1963

"Steve Allen Speaks Out This Month:" 'You and the Death Penalty', 'Anti-communist Hysteria', 'Danger in the Office Building', 'Women are Human', 'We're Responsible for Narcotic's Addition', 'Autopsy on Operation Abolution', 'Migratory Farm Workers', This Week Magazine, 1962

 File – Box 5, Folder: 93
Dates
Creation: 1962

Index of articles published, 1960-1963

 File – Box 5, Folder: 94
Dates
Creation: 1960-1963

Articles and Poems, 1963-1978

 Sub-Series – Box 6
Dates
Creation: 1963-1978

"Steve Allen on Humor", Breakthru, no. 14 (re: interview), 1963

 File – Box 6, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1963

"'Learn to Think' Says Steve Allen", Smoke Signals (re: interview, Allen's career), 1963

 File – Box 6, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: 1963

"Does Your Husband Cheat? Is This How You'll Find Out?", TV Radio Mirror, excerpt from Not All Your Laughter, Not All of Your Tears, 1963

 File – Box 6, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: 1963

"To All Aspiring Songwriters", Songsmith, 1963

 File – Box 6, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: 1963

"Irked Over Wade Column, Entertainer Steve Allen Writes Us To Defend Sane, Steve Allen vs. Maurice Wade", Home Reporter and Sunset News, 1963

 File – Box 6, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: 1963

"Matter of Opinion by Maurice Wade", Home Reporter and Sunset News, 1963

 File – Box 6, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: 1963

"An Interview with Steve Allen" by Gerard E. Sherry", Arena (re: comedian, reading, nuclear testing, censorship on television), 1963

 File – Box 6, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: 1963

"My Little Darling", Cavalier (re: A sinister tale of death and pablum), 1964

 File – Box 6, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: 1964

"The Literary Frontier, Barbarism", Frontier (re: capital punishment), 1964

 File – Box 6, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: 1964

"Steve Allen Tells His Side of 'Bomb' Story", Los Angeles Times, 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Steve Allen Says 'I Didn't Say That'", The Hammond Times (Indiana) (re: Castro and giving tanks and essentials of war for return of prisoners), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 11
Dates
Creation: 1965

"For the Record, Our Reader's Views", New York Journal American (re: William F. Buckley and nuclear arms), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Allen Without Tears", National Review (re: JQ Pack Company of Pikesville, Kentucky, closing down), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 13
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Turkey Stroganoff and China's Bomb", The Progressive (re: William F. Buckley's comments on Communist China's nuclear installations), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 14
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Allen on Buckley", undated

 File – Box 6, Folder: 15
Dates
Creation: undated

"Comment on Dale Francis' Comment", Our Sunday Visitor (re: John Birch Society), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 16
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Run, John, Run", The Critic (re: Review Of "Dialogues in Americanism), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 17
Dates
Creation: 1965

"The Playboy Panel: Uses and Abuses of the New Leisure", Playboy (re: Panelists Steve Allen, Cleveland Amory, John Diebold, Paul Goodman, Walter Kerr, Norman Podhoretz, Jean Shepherd and Terry Southern), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 18
Dates
Creation: 1965

"The June Issue", The New Guard (re: liberals-conservatives), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 19
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Getting Rid of the Nonsense We Live By", I.C.I.E. Reporting (re: Urge editors to use power to attack big problems of the world), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 20
Dates
Creation: 1965

"TV Chatter, Allen Lists 'Don'ts' for Autographs", Minneapolis Star (re: signing autographs), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 21
Dates
Creation: 1965

"The Open Forum: Steve Allen Strikes Back", Valley Times (re: Letter from James McCawley about Interfaith Groups), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 22
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Allen Glad (Almost) to Give Autographs", Chicago American

 File – Box 6, Folder: 23

"Vietnam Congressional", Record (re: Sane Nuclear Policy Committee), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 24
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Steve Allen Lists Autograph Lists", San Diego Union, 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 25
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Steve Allen Is Proud Of Talent Discovery", Buffalo Courier-Express (New York), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 26
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Why I Am a Volunteer For the American Cancer Society", American Cancer Society Magazine, ca. 1965?

 File – Box 6, Folder: 27
Dates
Creation: ca. 1965?

"Shut Up, Please", Gump (re: audience behavior), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 28
Dates
Creation: 1965

"I'm a Jet Commuter", United Airlines Mainliner (re: flying), 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 29
Dates
Creation: 1965

"Brown vs. Regan", The New Republic, 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 30
Dates
Creation: 1965

"A Brief China Letter and a Long Reply", The Minority of One, 1966

 File – Box 6, Folder: 31
Dates
Creation: 1966

"Steve Allen Replies, the Observant Citizen", Manchester Union Leader, 1966

 File – Box 6, Folder: 32
Dates
Creation: 1966

"The Great RCA-Victor Mystery", Cavalier, 1966

 File – Box 6, Folder: 33
Dates
Creation: 1966

"Steve Allen Defines Concept of Liberalism", The Highlights (Beverly Hills, CA), 1966

 File – Box 6, Folder: 34
Dates
Creation: 1966

"Migrant Workers in Your state: Must They Work Dirt Cheap", Coronet, 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 35
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Steve Allen Correction", The Highlights, 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 36
Dates
Creation: 1967

"The Three Little Pigs", Jazz, 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 37
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Bigger Than a Breadbox", Zest. Houston Chronicle (re: audience regulars), 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 38
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Steve Allen Sees TV as a Forum", Toledo Blade (OH), 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 39
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Allen Likes Doing TV Comedy Again--It Pays More", Middletown Journal (OH), 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 40
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Comedy In Short Supply", Los Angeles Times, 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 41
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Burn, Baby, Burn, Said the Cool Little Pig", Cocoa Today (FL), 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 42
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Excerpts From Steve Allen's Talk on Prison Reform Delivered at the Annual Meeting", Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals Newsletter, 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 43
Dates
Creation: 1967

"Tonight Show Launches a Teen-age Noel Coward", Billboard, 1967

 File – Box 6, Folder: 44
Dates
Creation: 1967

"What it Takes to Sell Yourself", Salesman's Opportunity, 1968

 File – Box 6, Folder: 45
Dates
Creation: 1968

"Humor Secrets: 'I've Got A Secret'", Master Newspaper Syndicate, 1965

 File – Box 6, Folder: 46
Dates
Creation: 1965

Index of articles published, 1963-1968

 File – Box 6, Folder: 47
Dates
Creation: 1963-1968

"More of the Best of Bill Cosby", undated

 File – Box 6, Folder: 48
Dates
Creation: undated

"Steve Allen--He'll Do Anything for Show Biz", San Francisco Chronicle, 1969

 File – Box 6, Folder: 49
Dates
Creation: 1969

"Random Thoughts on Myriad Things", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1969

 File – Box 6, Folder: 50
Dates
Creation: 1969

"Revolution in Humor", Television Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1 (re: revolution in TV comedy), 1969

 File – Box 6, Folder: 51
Dates
Creation: 1969

"The Happy Jack Fish Hatchery Papers", Esquire, The Magazine for Men (re: Steve Allen, Dalton Trumbo and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Debate the True Meaning of Liberalism), 1970

 File – Box 6, Folder: 52
Dates
Creation: 1970

"What Are We Laughing At?", Compton Yearbook (re: American humor), 1970

 File – Box 6, Folder: 53
Dates
Creation: 1970

"Steve Allen Answers Lawrence Lipton", Los Angeles Free Press (re: Argument between Helen McKenna and Lawrence Lipton), 1970

 File – Box 6, Folder: 54
Dates
Creation: 1970

"California Ocean Cove", This Must Be The Place, Los Angeles Times West Magazine (poetry), 1970

 File – Box 6, Folder: 55
Dates
Creation: 1970

"Halloween Parade--The Public Speaks Out", Los Angeles Times (re: John Birchers of Orange County, CA), 1970

 File – Box 6, Folder: 56
Dates
Creation: 1970

"By the Way" by Beverly Jackson, Letter from Steve Allen (re: Misquote at Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions), 1970

 File – Box 6, Folder: 57
Dates
Creation: 1970

"The Uses of Comedy, From Three Views of Humor", The Center Magazine (re: Today's humor is performed vs. previous humor was read), 1971

 File – Box 6, Folder: 58
Dates
Creation: 1971

"From Essayists to Comedians", Washington Post (re: humor today), 1971

 File – Box 6, Folder: 59
Dates
Creation: 1971

"Untitled", Playboy (Re: Execution of criminals), 1971

 File – Box 6, Folder: 60
Dates
Creation: 1971

"The Uses of Comedy", Journal of Creative Behavior, vol. 6, no. 2, 1972

 File – Box 6, Folder: 61
Dates
Creation: 1972

"From a Speech on Creativity", Journal of Creative Behavior (re: mystery of creativity), 1972

 File – Box 6, Folder: 62
Dates
Creation: 1972

"A Comic V(Allen)tine, Belated for, Steverino" by Gerald Nachman, New York Daily News, 1972

 File – Box 6, Folder: 63
Dates
Creation: 1972

"Steve Allen by Daniel Goldberg", Village Voice, 1972

 File – Box 6, Folder: 64
Dates
Creation: 1972

"Steve Allen Tells What Happened: A Contrast In Service", Chrystler-Plymouth Times (re: Chrystler repairs), 1972

 File – Box 6, Folder: 65
Dates
Creation: 1972

"Part-Time Professional Writer, Steve Allen: An Exclusive Interview" by Michael Renz, Writer's Digest (re: many sides of Steve Allen), 1972

 File – Box 6, Folder: 66
Dates
Creation: 1972

Doing Philosophy by Thomas Ellis Katen, introduction by Steve Allen, ca. 1972?

 File – Box 6, Folder: 67
Dates
Creation: ca. 1972?

"Putting On the Movies", Newsweek (re: no movies like these), 1973

 File – Box 6, Folder: 68
Dates
Creation: 1973

"A Conversation With Steve Allen", Television Quarterly, vol. XI, no. 3 (re: TV critics, TV ratings), 1974

 File – Box 6, Folder: 69
Dates
Creation: 1974

"The Steve Allen National Jerk Test", The American Way, 1974

 File – Box 6, Folder: 70
Dates
Creation: 1974

"Curses!.?!", New Woman, 1974

 File – Box 6, Folder: 71
Dates
Creation: 1974

"Pat Harrington, Jr. as Guido Panzini and Bill Dana as Kookie as Ever", Untitled magazine, undated

 File – Box 6, Folder: 72
Dates
Creation: undated

"En Garde! Woody Wields His Satirical Sword", Los Angeles Times (book review), 1975

 File – Box 6, Folder: 73
Dates
Creation: 1975

"How I Found My Missing Brother", Ladies Home Journal, 1975

 File – Box 6, Folder: 74
Dates
Creation: 1975

"Bull's Eye Triggers Response", Los Angeles Times (re: gun control), 1976

 File – Box 6, Folder: 75
Dates
Creation: 1976

"Talk Shows", The Saturday Evening Post, 1976

 File – Box 6, Folder: 76
Dates
Creation: 1976

"Hank Grant's Rambling Reporter", The Hollywood Reporter (guest columnist) (re: "Meeting of Minds"), 1976

 File – Box 6, Folder: 77
Dates
Creation: 1976

"Steve Allen on comedy, TV Comics", The Washington Star (re: Golden age of TV, where are people of fifties TV?, etc.), 1976

 File – Box 6, Folder: 78
Dates
Creation: 1976

"Priming the Creative Pump", Creative Living, 1977

 File – Box 6, Folder: 79
Dates
Creation: 1977

"Some Notes on TV's Responsibility to America's Mental Health", Television Quarterly, vol. XIV, no. 4, 1977-1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 80
Dates
Creation: 1977-1978

"Dialogue Steve Allen: A Mind Worth Meeting", Footlights Theatre Magazine, vol. 1, no. 8 (re: Interview with Steve Allen), 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 81
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry One?", Los Angeles Times (Re: Marriage in general, good and bad ones), 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 82
Dates
Creation: 1978

"TV: Junk Food for the Mind", Knickerbocker News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 83
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Steve Allen: TV is 'Junk Food for the Mind'", U.S. News and World Report, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 84
Dates
Creation: 1978

"No Solution Seen to 'Junk Food' TV", Courier Express, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 85
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Steve Allen's Encore", Bookviews (re: Corrections for interview by John Firth), 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 86
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Letters", The Hollywood Reporter (re: Garbage music), 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 87
Dates
Creation: 1978

"The World of Steve Allen: Boredom on Planet Earth", Glendale News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 88
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Live at the Lord", Liner Notes, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 89
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Why Steve Allen Made Those Jokes in East Rochester", Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) (re: "The Wake" in Rochester), 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 90
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Q & A Standards of Taste Have Deteriorated, says Steve Allen", Herald Examiner, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 91
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Reader's Digest article with letter from Nora McGonagle", Parade Publications, Inc. (re: Digest article by Steve Allen), 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 92
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Who Said What", Newsweek (re: Phrase "the big enchilada"), 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 93
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Tribute to a Fine Musician" (Frank Rosolino), Overture, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 94
Dates
Creation: 1978

"All Didn't Get Christmas Message", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 95
Dates
Creation: 1978

Index of articles published, 1969-1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 96
Dates
Creation: 1969-1978

Articles by Steve Allen as a Syndicated Columnist, 1978-1979

 Sub-Series – Box 6
Dates
Creation: 1978-1979

"One Man's Dirt is Another Man's…", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 97
Dates
Creation: 1978

"History of Dancing gets a New Twist", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 98
Dates
Creation: 1978

"They Weep for Elvis in Death, Forget the Living", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 99
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Are You a Big Jerk? Take This Test and Find Out For Yourself", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 100
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Check-Out-Line Papers Misuse Their Power", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 101
Dates
Creation: 1978

"People Like Works of Art, Benefit From Good Framing", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 102
Dates
Creation: 1978

"New Authors for Some Old Favorites", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 103
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Should Teamsters Represent Police", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 104
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Police Not Qualified to Clean Own House", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 105
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Frame's More Important than What's In It", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 106
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Somebody Fell Asleep on This Wake-Up Call", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 107
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Patriotism is More Than Flag Flying", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 108
Dates
Creation: 1978

"TV Solves Problems on the spot", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 109
Dates
Creation: 1978

"All Didn't Get Christmas Message", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 110
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Labor unions are not an Unmixed Blessing", Seattle Times, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 111
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Freshen Up Reality, Not Actors, in Scenes", Detroit News, 1978

 File – Box 6, Folder: 112
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Real Life is Seldom Like Reel Life", Seattle News, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 113
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Comedy: Imperfect Gift from the Gods", Detroit News, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 114
Dates
Creation: 1979

"TV Tragedy: Unfunny Photo of Comedians", Detroit News, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 115
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Making the Best Use of Spare Time", Detroit News, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 116
Dates
Creation: 1979

"We All Get 24 Hours, Gift to be Used Wisely", Seattle News, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 117
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Telephone Talk Leaves Listener Off the Hook", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 118
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Death of a Friend: Shock and Mystery", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 119
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Western-movie Talk Language of its Own", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 120
Dates
Creation: 1979

"What's so Funny About the Mafia", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 121
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Boredom: A Nation of Spoiled Children", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 122
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Trying to Deal With Immense Moral Evil", Detroit News, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 123
Dates
Creation: 1979

"A Visit to China is Different Sort of Tour than stop in Russia", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 124
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Western Visitors to China Welcome to Take Along Humor", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 125
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Teeming Bombay's Prosperity Pales", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 126
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Dormitory Where Poverty-Stricken May Die in Dignity", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 127
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Christian-Jew Conference Helps Put Prejudice to Rest", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 128
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Kings of Fashion Give Woman of America Sense of Inadequacy", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 129
Dates
Creation: 1979

"On 'Special' Editions and More Miscellany From the Writer's File", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 130
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Why Not a Campaign to Induce Us to Purge Minds of Food Fads", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 131
Dates
Creation: 1979

"The Show Biz Lowdown", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 132
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Visitors to China Less Aware of Politics Than Before", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 6, Folder: 133
Dates
Creation: 1979

Articles by Steve Allen as a Syndicated Columnist (continued), 1979

 Sub-Series – Box 7
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Unwanted Christmas Gifts: One Solution Is To Pass 'Em Along", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 1
Dates
Creation: 1979

"New Club to Rescue Public From Cliche", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 2
Dates
Creation: 1979

"All of Us Ignore Lessons of History By Our Own Peril", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 3
Dates
Creation: 1979

"What's in a Swear Word? It's a Manifestation of an Aggressive Impulse", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 4
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Excessive Attention can make Restaurants Distressing for Celebrities", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 5
Dates
Creation: 1979

"You've to be Taught to Hate...And to Love", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 6
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Too many Americans Pick Easy Patriotism", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 7
Dates
Creation: 1979

The World of Steve Allen (column appeared in Glendale News Press and Burbank Daily Review unless otherwise noted), 1978-1987, undated

 Sub-Series – Box 7
Dates
Creation: 1978-1987, undated

"Talk Show Hosts and Talent", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 8
Dates
Creation: 1978

"The Hits of Yesteryear", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 9
Dates
Creation: 1978

Untitled (re: Old radio broadcasts from distant ballrooms), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 10
Dates
Creation: 1978

"The Psychological Basis of Conformity", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 11
Dates
Creation: 1978

"The Good Old Days of Radio", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 12
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Problems of the Aged", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 13
Dates
Creation: 1978

"The Collapse of Efficiency" (re: hotel check-in), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 14
Dates
Creation: 1978

"A Canterbury Tale" (re: Autobiography of John Cogley), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 15
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Dirt, Garbage and Waste", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 16
Dates
Creation: 1978

Untitled (re: Question and Answer on Soviet Union), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 17
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Just Dancin'" (re: Origin of dancing), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 18
Dates
Creation: 1978

Tears for Elvis Presley (re: Sorrow for Elvis too Good), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 19
Dates
Creation: 1978

"The National Jerk Test", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 20
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Misuse of Journalism Power", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 21
Dates
Creation: 1978

"How Actors Get Framed" (re: The PR and packaging of famous people), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 22
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Best Sellers of all Time" (re: favorite books), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 23
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Should Teamsters Represent Your Police Department", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 24
Dates
Creation: 1978

"Best Sellers of All Time", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 25
Dates
Creation: 1978

"TV Softens Our Brains", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 26
Dates
Creation: 1978

Untitled (re: Police corruption), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 27
Dates
Creation: 1978

Untitled (re: Patriotism), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 28
Dates
Creation: 1978

Untitled (re: The point of Christmas), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 29
Dates
Creation: 1978

"The J. P. Stevens Boycott", 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 30
Dates
Creation: 1978

Untitled (re: The Creation of the "Steve Allen Show"), 1978

 File – Box 7, Folder: 31
Dates
Creation: 1978

Untitled (re: Films not realistic), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 32
Dates
Creation: 1979

"An Appeal for Movie Realism", Rocky Mountain News, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 33
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Now That Isn't Funny" (re: Comedy is about tragedy), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 34
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Ever See a Funny Photo?" (re: Rarity of funny photos), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 35
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Use of Time" (re: Use time productively), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 36
Dates
Creation: 1979

"One Side of Phone Conversations", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 37
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Words Can't Explain Suicide", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 38
Dates
Creation: 1979

"The Cowboy Sidekick Language", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 39
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Nothing Funny About the Mafia", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 40
Dates
Creation: 1979

Untitled (re: Anti-boredom), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 41
Dates
Creation: 1979

"A Sort of Moral Blindness", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 42
Dates
Creation: 1979

"China Visit", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 43
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Comedy Intrudes on Trip" (re: Trip to China), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 44
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Dispatch From Bombay", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 45
Dates
Creation: 1979

"Gracious Chinese Charm U.S. Tourists", Detroit News, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 46
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Creation: 1979

"Mother Theresa's Refuge", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 47
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Creation: 1979

"How Silly Can You Be" (re: Song lyrics), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 48
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Creation: 1979

"Christian, Jews Together", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 49
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Creation: 1979

"Show Biz Lowdown" (re: Columnists report truth?), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 50
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Creation: 1979

"The Golden Age", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 51
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Creation: 1979

"Humor Philosophy", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 52
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Creation: 1979

"Women versus Men", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 53
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Creation: 1979

"Notes from the World of Steve Allen", Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 54
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Creation: 1979

"Thoughts While Puffing on a Mythical Pipe", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 55
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Creation: 1979

"Items From Writer's Notebook", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 56
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Creation: 1979

"Dispatch from Hong Kong", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 57
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Creation: 1979

"Odds-and-ends from Writer's Notebook", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 58
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Creation: 1979

" …Anything can Happen and Usually Does", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 59
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Creation: 1979

"History is all Around", 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 60
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Creation: 1979

Untitled (re: Cursing), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 61
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Creation: 1979

"Dictionary Detective", Burbank Daily Review, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 62
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Creation: 1979

Index of articles published, 1978-1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 63
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Creation: 1978-1979

"Charitable Concern", Maryknoll, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 64
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Creation: 1979

"Jonestown, Continued", Time Magazine, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 65
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Creation: 1979

"Gracious Chinese Charm U.S. Tourists", Detroit News, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 66
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Creation: 1979

Kerouac Jacket Notes by Gilbert Millstein, music composed by Steve Allen, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 67
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Creation: undated

"Tolerating Prison Conditions", Letter to the Los Angeles Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 68
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Creation: 1979

"See No Evil", The Hollywood Reporter (Book Review), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 69
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Creation: 1979

"Bob Talbert's Quotebag, Steve Allen", Detroit Free Press, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 70
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Creation: 1979

"Steve Allen, 'You Can't Judge Anything Except Obviously by the Way of Comparing It to Something Else'", The Times Communicator (interview), 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 71
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Creation: 1979

"Steve Allen… ", Modern People (re: Elvis Presley), undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 72
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Creation: undated

"New Club to Rescue Public From Cliche", Seattle Times, 1979

 File – Box 7, Folder: 73
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Creation: 1979

"Remembering Durante", New York Daily News, 1980

 File – Box 7, Folder: 74
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Creation: 1980

"Stop da Music, Jimmy's Gone", The Cleveland Press, 1980

 File – Box 7, Folder: 75
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Creation: 1980

"Divorce", The Readers Forum, The Humanist (re: Divorce-ethical?), 1980

 File – Box 7, Folder: 76
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Creation: 1980

From "Messages to the Next Civilization", undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 77
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Creation: undated

"How to Enjoy the Classics", International Paper Company, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 78
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Creation: undated

"It's a Small World After All", TWA Ambassador, 1981

 File – Box 7, Folder: 79
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Creation: 1981

"Use and Abuse of Language", Los Angeles Times (Letters), 1981

 File – Box 7, Folder: 80
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Creation: 1981

Steve Allen: An Interview" from the book Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On by Robert Cain, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 81
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Creation: undated

"On Kerouac, Steve Allen, Allen Ginsberg", New Blood Magazine, 1981

 File – Box 7, Folder: 82
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Creation: 1981

"How to Conduct a Book Autographing", Publishers Weekly, 1981

 File – Box 7, Folder: 83
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Creation: 1981

"David Allan's Grab Bag", Metroland (Latham, NY) (re: Interview), 1981

 File – Box 7, Folder: 84
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Creation: 1981

"Garbage Rock", New West Magazine, 1981

 File – Box 7, Folder: 85
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Creation: 1981

"The Therapy of Thankfulness", Guideposts, 1981

 File – Box 7, Folder: 86
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Creation: 1981

Foreward by Steve Allen to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 11: "American Humorists," 1800-1950. Part 1: A-L, 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 87
Dates
Creation: 1982

"But Seriously, Folks: Comedian Steve Allen on Small Talk", New York Times, 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 88
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Creation: 1982

"But Seriously Folks…", Laugh Factory Magazine, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 89
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Creation: undated

"Re-reading Meet me at Jim and Andy's", Gene Lees Jazzletter (re: Letter), 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 90
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Creation: 1982

Letters to the Editor, Variety (re: Theolonius Monk), 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 91
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Creation: 1982

Why Not? by Dayton Allen, Introduction by Steve Allen, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 92
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Creation: undated

The Laughter Prescription by Laurence J. Peter and Bill Dana, Introduction by Steve Allen, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 93
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Creation: undated

"Steve Allen: 124th commencement Speaker", Campus (Elmira College), 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 94
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Creation: 1982

"The Accumulated Wisdom of the Ages Is At His Wrinkled Fingertips," by Jack Smith, Los Angeles Times (re: Steve Allen), 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 95
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Creation: 1982

"More Brows than Fingers are Getting Wrinkled in the Pursuit of knowledge," by Jack Smith (re: Allen/Smith affect), 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 96
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Creation: 1982

"Steve Allen", Long Island's Nightlife (re: interview), 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 97
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Creation: 1982

"Who Jed Harris Really Was", Current, 1982

 File – Box 7, Folder: 98
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Creation: 1982

"Steve Allen: My Life is an Open Book", The Journal Herald, Dayton, OH, 1983

 File – Box 7, Folder: 99
Dates
Creation: 1983

Liner notes for Al Jazzbeau Collins and Slim Gaillord, Steve Allen's Hip Fables Recorded June 11, 1983 (Record jacket liner), 1983

 File – Box 7, Folder: 100
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Creation: 1983

"I Remember Uncle Steve", Saturday Evening Post, 1983

 File – Box 7, Folder: 101
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Creation: 1983

"Applause, Applause", Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1983

 File – Box 7, Folder: 102
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Creation: 1983

"For Better Care and Feeding of the Gifted", The New York Times, 1983

 File – Box 7, Folder: 103
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Creation: 1983

"Break Dancing in the Street", Los Angeles Times, 1984

 File – Box 7, Folder: 104
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Creation: 1984

"The Return of Jess Stacy", Liner notes for a record album?, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 105
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Creation: undated

"The Curse of the Dining Class", TWA Ambassador (re: dining out), 1984

 File – Box 7, Folder: 106
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Creation: 1984

"Will Entertainment Also Enlighten?", Ford Times, vol. 77, no. 9, 1984

 File – Box 7, Folder: 107
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Creation: 1984

"Will Half Nelsons--and Ozzie Nelsons--He Went for the Funny Bone", TV Guide, 1984

 File – Box 7, Folder: 108
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Creation: 1984

Letter to the Editor, Los Angeles Times (re: hecklers), 1984

 File – Box 7, Folder: 109
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Creation: 1984

The Courage of Conviction by Phillip L. Berman, Foreword by Steve Allen, ca. 1985?

 File – Box 7, Folder: 110
Dates
Creation: ca. 1985?

Larry the Stooge in the Middle, Foreword by Steve Allen to unknown book, 1985

 File – Box 7, Folder: 111
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Creation: 1985

"Steve Allen and a Little Bit of Chocolate too", Chocolate News Interview, 1985

 File – Box 7, Folder: 112
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Creation: 1985

"Night Life", Los Angeles Times Magazine, 1985

 File – Box 7, Folder: 113
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Creation: 1985

"My Most Embarrassing Moment", National Enquirer, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 114
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Creation: 1986

"What's so Funny About Cruelty, Insensitivity, Vulgarity, Obscenity, Sleaze, and Raunch?", Los Angeles Times (Calendar, Letters), 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 115
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Creation: 1986

"How To Make a Speech", Macmillan Executive Summary Program, vol. 2, no. 4, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 116
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Creation: 1986

"I Salute Smith-Hemion", The Hollywood Reporter, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 117
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Creation: 1986

"Sick and Tired", Los Angeles Times Letters, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 118
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Creation: 1986

"'Sick and Tired' Letter Writers", Los Angeles Times (re: Response to Steve Allen's "Sick and Tired" Letter), 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 119
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Creation: 1986

"Creativity and Dreams", The Creativity Reports, vol. 5, nos.7-9, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 120
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Creation: 1986

"Steve Allen: Actor-Comedian-Composer-Writer", The Hollywood Reporter, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 121
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Creation: 1986

"Persuasive Speaking", Creative Living, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 122
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Creation: 1986

"But Seriously Folks…", Laugh Factory Magazine, 1986

 File – Box 7, Folder: 123
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Creation: 1986

Humor: God's Gift by Tal D. Bonham, Foreword by Steve Allen, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 124
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Creation: undated

"Steve Allen's Guide to the Best Comedy Acts on Cassette" by Steve Allen and Jane Wollman, TV Guide, 1987

 File – Box 7, Folder: 125
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Creation: 1987

Get Off My Brain by Randall McCutcheon, Foreword by Steve Allen, undated

 File – Box 7, Folder: 126
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Creation: undated

The World of Steve Allen (column appeared in Glendale News Press and Burbank Daily Review unless otherwise noted), 1986-1990

 Sub-Series – Box 8
Dates
Creation: 1986-1990

"When Elvis Did My Show", Daily News Magazine, 1987

 File – Box 8, Folder: 1
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Creation: 1987

Desert Sanctuary by Hank Messick, Foreword by Steve Allen, 1987

 File – Box 8, Folder: 2
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Creation: 1987

"This Could be the Start of Something Big", Gifted Children Monthly, 1987

 File – Box 8, Folder: 3
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Creation: 1987

"Looking Back with Bill Dwyer", The Trentonian, 1986

 File – Box 8, Folder: 4
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Creation: 1986

"Rock Around the Clock", Gene Lees Jazzletter (re: Letter about Rock Around the Clock), 1987

 File – Box 8, Folder: 5
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Creation: 1987

"Growing Up in Chicago", Chicago, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 6
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Creation: 1988

"I Was a Citizen Before I Was a Comedian", Newsday, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 7
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Creation: 1988

"Remember the Big Band Sound?", Diversion Magazine, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 8
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Creation: 1988

Index to articles published, 1979-1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 9
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Creation: 1979-1988

"My Most Frightening Moment", National Enquirer, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 10
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Creation: 1988

"The Top-of-the-Hill Gang", U.S.A. Weekend, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 11
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Creation: 1988

"Glamour is No Drinking Companion", Los Angeles Times, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 12
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Creation: 1988

"More About Nothin'", Emmy Magazine, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 13
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Creation: 1988

"On the Glories of Travel", On Your Way Magazine, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 14
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Creation: 1988

"Counting Plots", Time, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 15
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Creation: 1988

"To Err Isn't Humanist", The Buffalo News (New York), 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 16
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Creation: 1988

"The Art of Conversation", Time (re: Conversations with Bradley), 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 17
Dates
Creation: 1988

"Humor Me", Creative Living, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 18
Dates
Creation: 1988

Fundamentalism Hazards and Heartbreaks by Rod L. Evans, Foreword by Steve Allen, undated

 File – Box 8, Folder: 19
Dates
Creation: undated

"Nobody Told a Bad Joke Better", New York Times Christmas Books (re: Flywheel, shyster, and flywheel), 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 20
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Creation: 1988

"The Arithmetic", ETC (poetry), 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 21
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Creation: 1988

"For Comedy--The More Things Change the More They Remain the Same", Impact: The Nynex Magazine, 1988

 File – Box 8, Folder: 22
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Creation: 1988

"Speechmaking Made Easy", Innercircle, Winter 1988/1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 23
Dates
Creation: Winter 1988/1989

"The Frailty of Reason", Free Inquiry (interview with Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows), Winter 1988/1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 24
Dates
Creation: Winter 1988/1989

"Steve Allen, Comic, Writer, and Musician", Round Table (A Four Part Interview), 1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 25
Dates
Creation: 1989

"Maybe Steve Allen Hit Mark with 'Weighty' Advice", Desert News (Salt Lake City, UT), 1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 26
Dates
Creation: 1989

"Explaining China", From Reading Around the World by Joan D. Berbrich, 1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 27
Dates
Creation: 1989

"What Books Do You Wish You had Written?", The Critic, vol. 43, no. 4., 1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 28
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Creation: 1989

"Don't Be 'Dumbth' About Smoking", U.S.A. Today (Celebrity Corner Column), 1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 29
Dates
Creation: 1989

"Dumbth: 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter", The Commonwealth, 1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 30
Dates
Creation: 1989

The Passionate Non-Smoker Bill of Rights by Steve Allen and Bill Adler Jr., Foreword by Steve Allen, 1989

 File – Box 8, Folder: 31
Dates
Creation: 1989