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Although beaten at both Yale and Princeton this year, blind Robert G. Allman, shifty 118-pounder, rose to new heights by planing undefeated Harvey Ross with a half-nelson and body hold. Ross, like almost every other Crimson grappler, found it impossible to gain the advantage, once down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN CRUSHES MATMEN AS 1941 WINS, 16 TO 14 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

There are no blind professional wrestlers but at least one of Overbrook's graduates is able enough to consider such a career. He, Robert Allman, who left Overbrook in 1934, is currently a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies in Braille, wrestles as a regular member of the team. Last week while Navy wrestlers were beating Penn, 23-to-3, Wrestler Allman lost his match to Navy's Charles Chandler but his display of defensive technique was so impressive that 4,000 spectators cheered him throughout the bout, gave him an ovation when it ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blind Wrestlers | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Last week $100,000 in unclaimed prizes were on hand when Police Commissioner James P. Allman suddenly announced that Bank Night drawings violated a city ordinance, arrested 16 theatre managers, warned 250 more to stop Bank Nights forthwith. Making their arrests during the distribution of prizes, police were roundly booed by Chicago cinema audiences. In one theatre, the winner of a $10 prize had it confiscated as evidence before he could grab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bank Night Bans | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...regime. "It took us two months to get rid of Big Bill's police chief, Hughes. Once we got him before the grand jury, the Thompson machine itself forced him to resign. The work we then started back in 1928 has not stopped; today men such as Police Chief Allman are valiantly fighting crime in Chicago. Definitely less corruption exists there than in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loesch Asserts Thompson Machine Forced Big Bill to Resign---Chicago Cleaner Than N.Y.C. | 1/17/1934 | See Source »

Chicago's Police Commissioner James P. Allman surveyed the kaleidoscopic assortment of suspenders worn by his force, ordered black belts all around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

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