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Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Master of Leverett House, and book review editor of "The New England Quarterly" has been appointed, with Bennet Cerf, editor for Random House and "The Saturday Review of Literature," and Waldemar Kaempffert, science editor of the New York Times, to the Book Committee of "The Key Reporter," membership quarterly of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society...
Actually, Republican William S. Bennet, 73, a Wall Street lawyer who served three terms in the House before World War I, polled more votes than Tammany's candidate, James H. Torrens, 69, received on the Democratic ballot. The 3.226 votes that Torrens got on the leftist American Labor Party's ticket were the margin of his victory. Even more important, Republican Bennet won the only two sections that lie wholly in Harlem...
...They alibied on & on: loyal Negro Democrats weren't interested; Franklin Roosevelt himself was not on the ballot; New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia, telling his supporters after the election what he was careful not to say before, blamed his Party's weak choice. He described Bennet as "cultured, educated and experienced" and Torrens as a "Tammany wardheeler...
...TIME's apologies to Messrs. Bennett and Bennet for a picture mix-up which was corrected after a small part of the issue had been printed...
...Bennet Prize...