Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that all Herald troops were to be clean-shaven and shorthaired. During a stay abroad, he received information from one of the White Mice that a long-haired music critic had just been put on the payroll. TELL MELTZER TO CUT HIS HAIR, he cabled back. Meltzer refused. Bennett meted out his punishment by cable: SEND MELTZER...
...only half of Bennett was nonsense. Earlier than anyone else, he saw the value of spending freely to get news. He chartered launches to meet incoming liners from Europe and cheerfully paid vast cable bills for full accounts of distant sensations. By the time he was 35, the Herald was easily the best paper in the U.S., and no one was surprised when it scored a four-day beat by printing the complete news-denied by the War Department-of Custer's annihilation at Little Big Horn. It was part whim and part genius that prompted him to tell...
Typically, Bennett took it with bad grace when, two years later, Stanley actually found Livingstone (who, incidentally, had not been aware that he needed finding) and became famous overnight. Bennett's cable of congratulations, which Stanley received during a leisurely and triumphal return to the U.S.. read: STOP...
...TALKING. BENNETT...
...better of this, he got drunk at a New Year's party at his fiancee's New York home. Here accounts differ. Some say that, in full view of everyone, he urinated into the fireplace. Others say he urinated into the grand piano. The engagement was off. Bennett and the girl's brother fought (halfheartedly) the last duel in the U.S., and the publisher exiled himself to Europe...