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Woollcott's best-remembered enterprise was the founding of the Algonquin Round Table, a grand gathering of playwrights, critics, writers and comics. Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley were all there; the Marx Brothers dropped by occasionally. Sherwood Anderson and Moss Hart were frequently in attendance. Knowing that anything witty would be printed, repeated and quoted, Woolcott directed the conversation toward the four topics that interested him: "Theater, friends, murder and anything else that interests me." The Round Table flourished. Only the flight of New York's sharpest tongues to Hollywood forced it to disband in the late 1930s...
...Robert Benchley once made up a list of things to do when one wants to kill time. It included...
...best judge of what he should take." It seemed a fitting notion in a day when all knowledge was supposedly contained in the infamous five-foot shelf of classics, which began with the Bible and worked its way through the Hellenic myths and Shakespeare, Milton and Faust. Robert Benchley sat in the Harvard Club of Boston after his graduation determined to make his way through the whole 60 inches. He confessed it was nearly impossible, and concluded it was probably better just to read the beginning...
...rural Exeter, N.H., is better equipped and endowed than many colleges. But Phillips Exeter Academy, which celebrates its 200th birthday this year, is only a prep school -though perhaps the best in the country. Its list of illustrious alumni is imposing. Among them: Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Jay Rockefeller, Robert Benchley, Daniel Webster and Franklin Pierce. Equally imposing are the school's fees: $6,100 annually for tuition, room and board, paid by parents in 43 states and 27 foreign countries...
...real relationship between Benchley and O'Hara fails to be understood for the sake of such humorous anecdotes. MacShane flunks in character development, where O'Hara is at his best...