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...Bennet is a political unknown even in the district, though his father served eight years in Congress. But he has a sound political background. He is president of the Newburgh Y.M.C.A., a churchman, a onetime president of the local Chamber of Commerce, a Son of the American Revolution. Last week he got Dewey's backing. He also has the backing of many independent Republicans. What he did not have and would not get was the support of the ancient, cast-iron Republican machine which dominates the district. The district GOPoliticos, backing Fish again, were set to crush any upstart...
Young (44) Gus Bennet is a successful Newburgh lawyer who is earnestly ready to sacrifice his income and comfortable private existence in order to retire Ham Fish from Congress...
Some of his own Republican colleagues, remembering Fish's isolationism and prewar pro-Axis leanings, think that 22 years are long enough. Their best hope appeared to be Augustus W. Bennet...
Richard Dyer-Bennet, Lute Singer (Keynote album). Minstrelsy by a light-voiced youngster (TIME, Oct. 13), ranging from the 17th-Century Golden Vanity to a current Anzac favorite, The Swagman (or Waltzing Matilda...
Richard Dyer-Bennet got into Burke's by being related to a British baronet, Sir John Dyer. He got into lute-playing less simply. Although born in England, he had a U.S. mother, chose to become a U.S. citizen on his 21st birthday, went to the University of California. There he met a voice teacher who remodeled his youthful tenor and told him of a great Swedish minstrel named Sven Scholander. When Dyer-Bennet inherited $500, he hotfooted to Sweden, learned the Swedish lute and some balladeering tricks. He was just in time: within a year, Scholander...