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COPYRIGHT 2001 Daily News
Byline: Paul D. Colford
Apr. 25--Those who knew Col Allan during his stint in the late 1970s as a New York correspondent for Rupert Murdoch's Australian papers remember a dogged newsman whose workdays were capped by serious drinking and more than a few barroom brawls.
"Sometimes, the only way to get him away from you was to put him out -- to knock him out cold," a colleague from the old days recalled yesterday. Another said "Canvas Back" was one nickname he earned for his penchant of winding up on the floor during fights.
But when Allan, 47, returns to New York next week, it won't be as...
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