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Some people don't like Benchley. But then some people don't like Coca-Cola, baseball games, or the Old Howard. Benchley's stock in trade is undiluted humor -- sometimes tempered with sophistication, cynicism, or satire, but invariably funny as hell. No one knows precisely what makes people laugh. Benchley's theory is that "all laughter is merely a compensatory reflex action to take the place of sneezing." If this is true, Benchley must be an awful pain in the neck for the manufacturers of Kleenex, a product which would have alarmingly small sales among the devotees...
...face it! Allen has been out-clowned by Hope and Berle, bested by Benny in spontaneity and naturalness of wit, and out-Aliened by Benchley...
Last year "Copey" came out of his semi-retirement to revive his famed Christmas readings with a serving of "Dinner at the Cratchitts" by Charles Dickens. When George Santayana '86 and Robert Benchley '12 heard it in their respective college days, it provoked them to diverse literary expression on the piece. The humorist was inspired to parody, and the philosopher to eulogy of Copeland as "an artist rather than a scholar...
...querulous essay, the late Robert Benchley asks Why Does Nobody Collect Me? "I have been told by hospital authorities," says Humorist Benchley coldly, "that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. It does seem as if people might at least take my books home with them." Benchley offers for sale the following rare editions: 1) Pluck and Luck (Holt, 1924), by Robert Benchley-"a very interesting find for collectors" since it is inscribed by Author Benchley to his friend, Donald Ogden Stewart, whose name is misspelled "Stuart"; 2) Ernest Hemingway...
...campus work). Princeton's Tiger boasts of names like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Booth Tarkington, Whitney Darrow Jr. The Yale Record printed Lucius Beebe, Stephen Vincent Benet and Peter Arno. Milton Caniff was art editor of the Ohio State Sundial. John P. Marquand, Gluyas Williams and the late Robert Benchley began on the Harvard Lampoon...