Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than that of Laurence Olivier; seldom a more perfect break-down that the first proposal scene. Greer Garson is the second edition of Myrna Loy,--and the second edition can act. Honorable mention goes to Mary Boland, whose past career has been a rehearsal for the part of Mrs. Bennett, and Melville Cooper, whose depiction of stuffed shirts is rapidly approaching...
...deal, and often says what Frank lin Roosevelt wants spoken, cried again: "England's critical need is not for men but for ships, planes and supplies. . . . There fore, I call upon the President to make available to England . . . flying fortresses, bombers, fighting planes and warships." Wailed Isolationist Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri: "If the British ask the President they will get the flying fortresses . . . and almost anything else they want...
...Congress. Biggest morale prop is the cinema: the Division already has more than 100 theatres at Army posts, expects to set up many more in new camps for conscripts and National Guardsmen. Colonel Pfeil has found that soldiers prefer Westerns, Hedy Lamarr, Ann Sheridan (in that order), dislike Connie Bennett and English actors...
...Married. Bennett A. ("Beans") Cerf, 42, shrewd, big-boyish Manhattan publisher (Random House-Modern Library); and onetime Cinemactress Phyllis Eraser, 25; in New York City; she for the first time, he for the second. In 1936 Publisher Cerf was divorced by Cinemactress Sylvia Sidney...
...Fort Wayne hotel 19-year-old Waitress Ethel Gaff saw to it that a lean, greying old man ate his luncheon in peace, stood popeyed when one of his associates left a $46 tip (for a $4 check), thought it must be a mistake. Next day in Detroit Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., explained: "I left the money purposely. . . . She did a very good job. . . particularly in keeping curiosity seekers away from Mr. Ford...