Word: bennett
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...other names and other activities. As Hans Berger he wrote articles for the Daily Worker. As Julius Eisman he made frequent visits to the Manhattan offices of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee-a Communist front organization which had duped Bennett Cerf, Charles BOyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and many another big name into becoming its sponsors. The Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee gave him monthly checks for $150. By means of the party grapevine, he was in touch with Samuel Kogan, alias Carr, a member of Canada's Communist atomic spy ring...
From the spectator's viewpoint, the climax of the meet came when Pete Harwood, leading Varsity polevaulter, wriggled over the bar at 13 feet. Outstanding among other Mikkola scorers were Jack Fisher, who placed secand to Bob Bennett, of Brown, in the NEAAU championship 35-pound weight throw; Dave Reed, whose 21 foot, 1/4 inch leap earned him second place in the broadjump; and Pete Garland, who took second in the 16-pound shot and tied for third in the high-jump. Since the meet was invitational, no score were kept. It was the last competitive tuneup for the Varsity...
...pound weight throw (NEAA Uchampionship event)--Won by Bennett (Brown); second J. Fisher (H); third, Miller, (R:I); fourth, X. A. Felton (H). Distance--52 feet, 3 3/4 inches...
...VARMINTS (287 pp.)-Peggy Bennett-Knopf...
Elsewhere in this first novel by 21-year-old Peggy Bennett of Apalachicola, Fla. there is still more hair-raising prose. The story, probably more or less autobiographical, is that of three children (the varmints) who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...