Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philip Van Doren Stern, Manhattan publisher, was noted by The Saturday Review of Literature's Columnist Bennett Cerf for his quick response to a suggestion that Armed Services Editions (of which he is an editor) print The Ten Commandments. Mulled Stern, who once worked for best-selling literary treasurers Simon & Schuster: "How about using only five of them and calling it A Treasury of the World's Best Commandments...
...months the world-straddling empire of Henry Ford has quivered and groaned like a leviathan with acute indigestion. Cause of the upheavals has been the rival ambitions of the empire's two powerful princes: tough Director Harry Bennett and smooth Production Boss Charles E. Sorensen. Last week, the empire had its biggest convulsion...
...orders. He knew far more about Europe than House did. Born in Maryland, educated in New Hampshire (St. Paul's) and Germany (Heidelberg), Bonsal had in 1915 been a world traveler and newspaperman for 30 years, became a lieutenant colonel in World War I. For James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald (who, he says, was fond of "quoting winged words which, rightly or wrongly, he attributed to Abraham Lincoln"), Bonsal covered the meetings of Russian and German revolutionists in New York City and London, flew in balloon races, once tested a submarine in New York Harbor...
...Beverly Hills. He was introduced with confident graciousness by California's Republican Governor Earl Warren ("We like his frankness . . ."). Wallace assured the moviemakers that they would get more business by "understanding the unexpressed hunger in the souls of moviegoers." But Academy President Walter Wanger (producer husband of Joan Bennett), with only a bit part on the program, got the biggest hand. He put aside his scheduled talk, and attacked the Alliance: "Let's keep the record straight. We, too, find home-grown communism as odious as home-grown fascism. . . . [But we do not] intend to be misled...
...following 37 years are his monument, shine with his liberal belief that "a" country's political growth should not be stunted by the dead hand of mere legalism." He dissented when the Court ruled out Canada's first "New Deal" sponsored by Prime Minister (now Lord) Bennett. When his fellow judges ruled that women were not persons and therefore net entitled to sit in the Senate, he dissented vigorously. His view was upheld in the Privy Council in London, of which Sir Lyman had been a member since...