Update on Dale Allen

Former BJ editor Dale Allen will be rehabbing at Cleveland’s University Hospital Harvard Road facility for two weeks.

His daughter, Kendall Allen Rockwell, said his speech “is coming along.”

Dale has been dealing with the effects of a brain tumor since April.

Dale, vowel-avoiding Features Editor Jim Nolan and I were the midwives for Channels’ TV guide birth in 1980. It was a Management By Objective (MBO) project for Dale.

A few years later, Dale had me slow down the BJ computers while Knight-Ridder representatives were in the building to determine if Ol’ Blue Walls needed more mainframe power. I did.

KR folks went back to Miami and the BJ got its upgrade to superpower mainframe.