CHILI SEASON IS UPON US

I met H. Allen Smith at his home in Alpine in 1969. He was a big deal celebrity: Hollywood screen writer, nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, an author of magazine articles in Esquire and similar magazines and a frequent guest on television talk shows. His books stayed on the bestseller list a hundred days at a time. He was profiled by Edward R. Murrow. H. Allen was a humorist. He coined…