Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season. Joan and Barbara are not on speaking terms. Joan, her Producer-Husband Walter Wanger and party entered and found Barbara and Actor-Husband Addison Randall. Then Tenor Morton Downey, ex-of Barbara, joined Joan and party. Barbara and husband departed with Roszika Dolly and husband, but soon returned for a Welsh rabbit. Randall slipped and fell, or was tripped and fell. His in-laws and party laughed. Randall marched over to the in-laws and issued a challenge to Downey...
Even if Kimmel and Short do not stand trial in June, the Administration will. Roared Missouri's enraged Senator Bennett Champ Clark: "I'm going to keep after them. Stimson and Knox want no part of a court-martial for Kimmel and Short ... in fact the Administration as a whole wishes to forget the whole thing. If the Administration has any idea that I will forget about this thing it is plain crazy...
...Swamped the small, clannish, secretive book industry, with its 274 firms and 4,000 highly organized, well-informed employes. Said Random House's President Bennett Cerf: "It's unbelievable. It's frightening." Pocket Books, which at 25? apiece sold 5,000,000 copies in 1940, 10,000,000 in 1941, 20,000,000 in 1942, sold 38,000,000 in 1943. Even the ponderous university presses reported sales up 20-30%; in one month (October), sales of the one-volume Columbia Encyclopedia jumped...
Five newsmen went along on an R.A.F. raid over Berlin last week; only two came back. "Missing in action": 1) slim, 23-year-old Lowell Bennett of the International News Service, who was to write an eyewitness account of the raid for all three U.S. press associations, and who got the assignment by flipping a coin with a colleague; 2) New Zealander Norman Stockton, representing an Australian newspaper service, 3) a British correspondent whose identity was temporarily withheld...
...more than a decade after she divorced Plant, she claimed she had adopted the baby boy she brought back from abroad. Plant died in 1941; a trust fund of more than a half million dollars was to go to his offspring, if he had any. Recently Constance Bennett declared that her adopted son was really hers and Plant's, born after their divorce, that she had adopted the boy to keep his father from getting custody of him. Last week, when Plant's mother and his show-girl widow were fighting a court battle with Miss Bennett over...