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unusual facts about P. Allen Smith


P. Allen Smith Gardens

Allen Smith Gardens is a syndicated home and garden television series hosted by P. Allen Smith.


Alpine, Texas

Alpine was once the home of the American humorist, H. Allen Smith and briefly of novelist, Nelson Algren (Man with the Golden Arm) who stole a typewriter from a classroom at Sul Ross in order to keep writing.

Geoff Stradling

He is a noted jazz composer, having won the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) national composition contest in 1974 with his composition "The Great White Also", a literary reference to H. Allen Smith, published by the C. L. Barnhouse Company company.

Octopus wrestling

H. Allen Smith wrote an article for True magazine in 1964, collected in Low Man Rides Again (1973), about a gentleman named O'Rourke whom he dubs the "Father of Octopus Wrestling".

Think Small

Charles Addams, Bill Hoest, Virgil Partch, Gahan Wilson and other top cartoonists of that decade drew cartoons showing Volkswagens, and these were published along with amusing automotive essays by such humorists as H. Allen Smith, Roger Price and Jean Shepherd.


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