Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Addams, whom Publisher Bennett Cerf describes as "the gentlest and the kindliest old schizophrene," and for whose work Boris Karloff (who contributes a foreword) has a "whole-souled admiration," is not preoccupied only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke of the Addams' hand to universal madness. Drawn and Quartered includes his drawings of and that haunting simile of the mind's disintegration: ski tracks divided by a large tree...
...York, where he had futilely opposed John J. Bennett in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, the President found himself in a dilemma. Now that primary bygones were bygones, Franklin Roosevelt desperately wanted Democrat Bennett to win over Republican Thomas E. Dewey. Three weeks ago, he formally plumped for Bennett's election. But Republican Dewey still led in the straw polls, Democrat Bennett was a poor second; and the American Labor Party, formerly a boon to the New Deal, was running a candidate of its own. So, last week Franklin Roosevelt tried again. Said he, in a telegram addressed to Bennett...
...York, Democrats were asking for more help from Franklin Roosevelt for their candidate for Governor, John J. Bennett. The New York Daily News's poll showed Republican Thomas E. Dewey leading even in usually Democratic New York City, gave Dewey a 59%-to-36% lead in the State. (A semifinal Gallup poll gave Dewey the advantage, 51%-to-41%, but showed a Bennett comeback.) In Massachusetts, Republicans now felt certain that their handsome Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. would beat off the threat of determined Congressman Joseph E. Casey (still waiting for a Roosevelt blessing...
Polish, Curiosity, Comics. A cross between the London Times and James Gordon Bennett's old New York Herald, La Prensa is unlike any other newspaper anywhere. In its fine old building the rooms are lofty and spiced with the odor of wax polish, long accumulated. Liveried flunkies pass memoranda and letters from floor to floor on an old pulley and string contraption. But high-speed hydraulic tubes whip copy one mile from the editorial room to one of the world's most modern printing plants-more than adequate to turn out La Prensa's 280,000 daily...
Married. Maria Zimbalist Goelet. daughter of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist; and Henry F. Bennett Jr. of Reno; each for the second time; in Philadelphia. Her first was Manhattan Socialite Ogden Goelet...