Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robinson, Joan Bennett; TIME...
Some of the most hardheaded incumbent isolationists were already beaten in primaries: Missouri's mulish Bennett Clark, Idaho's stubborn D. Worth Clark, Oregon's egregious Rufus Holman, South Carolina's "Cotton Ed" Smith...
...Syndicate. Marshall Field should have plenty of competition. By last week smart, suave Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, had lined up a potent phalanx of publishers-Charles Scribner's Sons, Little Brown & Co., Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie...
...paper shortage made these schemes mere schemes. Random House is so pinched for paper that it did not even have enough to publish Bennett Cerf's own book of anecdotes, Try and Stop Me. So, last week, Competitor S. &. S. printed...
...Woman in the Window (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett; TIME...