Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There wasn't even an argument from anyone except Jim Bennett of Cornell. Bennett was chosen for the first team by five of the seven coaches and the other two gave him second-place votes. Thus on a basis of two points for a first-team election and one for second, he gained 12 points to Broberg...
...National Press Club dinner in Washington were 1,679 pounds of potential candidates for President: U. S. Attorney General Robert Jackson, 165 Ibs.; New York's Representative Bruce Barton, 174; Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, 195; Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 185; Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, 205; Federal Security Administrator Paul Varies McNutt, 195; Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 180; Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones, 230; Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, 150. Each gave a five-minute address (off the record) on "Reasons Why I Am Not Qualified To Be President...
Died. James O'Donnell ("Eye Witness") Bennett, 69, famed retired Chicago Tribune reporter & correspondent; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An admirer of German efficiency, he picked Germany to win World War I, but scorned the typewriter, wrote in pencil...
...Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia: four sides). An English pseudo-folk song made famous when King George VI sang it at a boys' camp (TIME, Oct. 23), Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree was really written by old-fashioned British Composer William Sterndale Bennett. The spirited, polka-dotted variations on it by Czech Weinberger (who thought it a genuine antique) get brilliant treatment from the Clevelanders...
Class of 1942: Alan J. Ansen, Woodmere, L. I., N. Y., Eugene S. Austin, Mt. Pleasant, Tenn.; Marvin G. Barrett, Des Moines, Iowa; J. Malcolm Barter, Beverly; Ralph B. Bennett Jr., The Dalles, Ore; Warren M. Cannon, Independence...