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Over the years Harvard has turned out far more than its share of a nation's major literary figures, in both critical and imaginative writing. In this century the University has left its mark on Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley, e.e.cummings, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Marquand, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Sherwood, Wallace Stevens, and Thomas Wolfe, to name an even dozen. While this may be due to the undeniable attraction of a Harvard diploma for the talented, an examination of specific cases indicates that the University did not pass these...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Creative Writing Comes of Age at Harvard | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

Biographies in Sound (Tues. 8:35 p.m., NBC). Robert Benchley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Benchley was not found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing 'Cliffe Miss Remains a Mystery | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...discovered that a P. Benchley had signed out to the Square and had not returned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing 'Cliffe Miss Remains a Mystery | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

When the hour grew later. Without any signs of the mysterious Miss Benchley, an unplanned fire drill was decreed. Extensive questioning of all the residents, however, threw no light on the identity or whereabouts of the alleged visitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Missing 'Cliffe Miss Remains a Mystery | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

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