Word: benchley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind will always be larger than his frame. Fred's father, a Back Bay minister, sent him to Groton (it tasted awful but was good for him, he feels-like milk of magnesia). At Harvard he was on the Lampoon with Cartoonist Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley. Allen landed his first editorial job under Ellery Sedgwick on the Atlantic Monthly, was managing editor of the old Century at only 26. He joined Harper's in 1923, and became its editor...
Young Miss Simmons has an unspoiled talent for speaking with an open voice or, in an old Shakespearean phrase of Robert Benchley's, from the heart rather than the roof of the mouth. She has an oblique, individual beauty and a trained dancer's continuous grace. As a result, she jerks genuine tears during scenes which ordinarily cause Shakespeare's greatest admirers to sneak out for a drink. Compared with most of the members of the cast, she is obviously just a talented beginner. But she is the only person in the picture who gives every...
Since then, the HDC has developed as a theatrical group, and such well known directors, actors, and writers as Gilbert Seldes '14, Robert Benchley '12, and Robert E. Sherwood '17 have been associated with...
Died. Douglas H. Cooke, 61, onetime publisher of Leslie's Weekly, Judge, and the old Life magazine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In the '20s, he printed the chipper early works of Robert Benchley and John Held Jr., turned conservative when the magazines and the era folded, became a publisher of hospital magazines...
...Robert Benchley '12 was proud of his Harvard background where after four years of intensive study he discovered why one should never draw to an inside straight even in a friendly game. In those ancient days poker was an easy game to master before the invention of the forward pass and the ruffle-shuffle...