Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lamps, a piano, and a ping-pong table. Introduced by the Invocation pronounced by Chaplain J. C. Ryan, the proceedings featured Sidney L. Rindler who spoke in behalf of the council and expressed his pleasure to be able to contribute towards the war effort. Dr. Philip G. Berman and Bennett Silverblatt, vice-president of the council and chairman of the War Work Committee were the other speakers of the evening...
From Gertrude Stein, doggedly pursuing her own literary life in France, came a manuscript, Mrs. Reynolds, to Manhattan Publisher Bennett Cerf. She had mailed it to a friend in Sweden, who got it to the U.S. by mysterious means-perhaps by diplomatic pouch, hinted Cerf, to spare suspicious censors the task of trying to decode it. The publisher said .he looked at the manuscript, could make nothing of it, thought it could probably be read from either end, decided to publish...
Also ready for a publisher (Alfred A. Knopf) was thrice-married Cinemactress Joan Bennett's manuscript, How To Be Attractive. She summed it up: "An attractive woman is one who grows smart instead...
...work, this tale demonstrates a new and more mature attention to descriptive detail. An unusual plot conception adds interest to the story, but its triumph is the integration of plot will the delineation of character and scene to achieve a unity of achievement uncommon in undergraduate literary effort. Ralph Bennett has contributed an excellent account of an everyday incident at a barley harvest. More a narrative essay than a short story, this episode gains from Bennett's obvious familiarity with his material and from his facility of description and mood. The story, "Cold July," is neither exciting nor obscurely modern...
...realists about the war Were unhorsed, while the so-called soap salesmen were in the saddle. Off went capable, Pulitzer Prizewinner Henry Fowles Pringle (OWI's No. 1 writer), 13 other top writers and publishers. In came smooth, dapper, onetime Columbia Broadcasting System vice president William Bennett Lewis (Assistant Director), smooth, dapper, onetime Coca-Cola admanager Price Gilbert (Acting Chief of Graphics), a beauteous bevy of other admen and promotion specialists...