Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Dyer-Bennett, American Troubader, will present excerpts from his repertoire of six centuries of ballads, sea chanteys, folk ditties, and Australian Bush songs over the Network tonight at 9 o'clock...
...people last week watched an extraordinary and absorbing spectacle-the public disgrace of a U.S. Army general. Never in modern times had a high officer suffered such dishonor, seldom had one brought more upon himself and his service than did stiff-backed, sharp-eyed Major General Bennett E. Meyers...
Bravery & Bears. The first and best part of his story tells how a hillman named Kalyanu became the favored servant of Mr. Bennett, deputy commissioner of Garhwal, in 1875. Having killed a marauding bear by an exercise of intelligence and angry bravery, Kalyanu soared to the conclusion that bears were easy ; he failed to use his head on the next bear and got mauled. Mr. Bennett set his leg, healed him, and took him on as an orderly at a critical moment...
...Bennett and his new servant, traveling through the hills, took by surprise a village where the forbidden "rope festival" was about to be held. In this rite, believed to make the fields fertile, the sacrificial victim had a sporting chance; he had to ride a forked stick down a rope stretched from a 500-ft. cliff to the fields below...
...Bennett and his party arrived on the scene just as the fun was about to begin -an ill-timed arrival for Her Majesty's representative. Mr. Bennett faced down the sullen hillmen, stopping the show, and Kalyanu helped to see him through. Later, Mr. Bennett took Kalyanu along on an exploratory ascent of the high Himalayan range. On a glassy snow slope at 15,000 feet the two men were caught in a cloud. They fell, but broke their fall and were not killed. But Mr. Bennett would never have made it back to camp without Kalyanu...