Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the aid of electronic amplification, it has a vibrant power reminiscent less of Lanza than of Tony Bennett...
...Scandalous Mr. Bennett, by Richard O'Connor. A diverting chronicle of fabled New York Herald Owner James Gordon Bennett Jr., whose eccentric doings were calculated to raise both his paper's circulation and his own blood pressure...
There, while keeping a tyrant's control of the parent paper, he founded the Paris Herald. Typically, the sheet was eccentric (for some reason, Bennett was amused by a letter written by an "old Philadelphia lady" who wanted to know how to change centigrade degrees to Fahrenheit; the letter ran, without explanation, in every issue until Bennett died 18 years later). Typically also, under his editorship, the Herald's Paris edition became one of the best papers on the Continent...
...York Herald covered the Spanish-American War far better than the papers of Hearst, whose jingoism touched it off. Its circulation swelled to more than half a million. But when Hearst forced Bennett to stop publishing a hugely profitable page of classified ads inserted by prostitutes (the columns were nicknamed "The Whores' Daily Guide & Compendium") the paper went into a decline. In 1920, the limping Herald (along with the Evening Telegram and the Paris Herald) was sold for $4,000,000. Bennett had been dead for less than two years...
...only flaw in the Bennett legend is that he did not get the mausoleum he wanted. This was to be a statue, 200 feet high, in the shape of an owl (Bennett liked owls). It was to be far grander than Grant's tomb on Riverside Drive (Bennett did not like Grant). But Architect Stanford White, who was supposed to design the bird, got himself shot by Harry Thaw. Bennett lost interest, and Manhattan lost...