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Many people weren't happy about the study cards they handed in Tuesday. Some were sad because they'd missed with the old Benchley formula--no classes before 10, after 12, on Saturday, or above the first floor. But others, who had picked their courses for content, were foiled by the catalogue; every course they wanted met Monday, Wednesday, Friday...
Project 109, unlike its predecessor "A Touch of the Times," will not attempt any social message. It will be a straightforward humorous sketch, in the style of the late Robert Benchley, according to Alexander. In the prologue to the film author MacCann will give a dedication and his "limited apologies" to Benchley...
...members like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Robert Benchley have tutored enterprising young Bostonians in Piano, Calculus, and the 440-yard freestyle swim. They have read texts to the blind and collected blood for the injured. They have swapped tickets to football games and sold tickets to plays; they have promoted rides to Vassar. They have done the jobs that should have been done and which nobody else would...
...twelve years, Frank Baxter's annual Christmas readings had become a tradition at U.S.C. A pink-faced, bouncy man who gives the readings his dramatic best, he has had enthusiastic audiences since he began. Last week he went from Dickens to Benchley, from a medieval carol ("From far away we come to you . . .") to Ogden Nash ("Epstein, Spare that Yule Log!"), to poems written by soldiers at Tobruk...
...Clinic began the practice of inviting visiting dignitaries and distinguished men from the University to come for the 40-cent lunch and talk with the staff. Julian Huxley, H. L. Mencken, and the psychologist Carl Jung are among the diverse visitors the Clinic has had. The late Robert Benchley also came. He arrived in the middle of the joke experiment. Benchley showed great interest in all the apparatus used to measure a person's internal and external responses to the jokes, and in a few weeks the Clinic staff was reading an elaborate parody of their experiment, which Mr. Benchley...