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...hopes of a concert career. But by 1912 the brash kid had practical-joked his way out of school and onto the vaudeville stage. His solo act, A Few Minutes with Jack Benny, swiftly became the country's most civilized performance. When Jack tried a Broadway revue, Robert Benchley marveled at his savoir-faire. Yet somehow Benny always seemed a cut below headliner status. His few films for MGM were undistinguished; he was too low-key for nightclubs. By mid-Depression the choice was narrow: the new medium of radio or the old misery of starvation...
...presidential campaign manager and press secretary, respectively. The article opens up with a ridiculous description of Castro as having "the build of a cornerback, or maybe an Ivy League tackle," and proceeds to detail his diet, smoking habits, and insane driving abilities, concluding with Castro remarking on Peter Benchley's novel, Jaws. All of this seems kind of a superficial approach to interviewing a revolutionary leader, but then maybe Castro wasn't aware of the kind of magazine he would be appearing in. The interview itself is revealing--for instance, Castro says that the 1972 hijacking agreement was signed because...
...Jaws, Benchley...
...Jaws, Benchley...
...Centennial/ Michener (2 last week) 2-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carré (1) 3-The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer (3) 4-The Dogs of War, Forsyfh (4) 5-Jaws, Benchley (7) 6-The Pirate, Robbins (5) 7-Watership Down, Adams (6) 8-The War Between the Tates, Lurie (8) 9-The Rhinemann Exchange, Ludlum(10) 10-Something Happened, Heller