Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: Van [Allen

(Thornton Van Nuys Allen, Jr.)] loved to entertain people by singing, reciting poems of Robert Service and Rudyard Kipling, telling stories in Lancashire dialect, and doing impressions of Winston Churchill, Maurice Chevalier and Frank Sinatra. He also wrote poems about his flying experiences and a personal memoir entitled 'Brown Shoe Navigator' or 'Unheard of Tales of the South Pacific.'

from Palisadian-Post: Van Allen, 91; Naval Veteran, Businessman

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