Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, the blossoming of the book industry has attracted hungry investors. "Those Wall Street houses are after all of us to go public," says Random House President Bennett Cerf. "They go around waving certified checks in publishers' faces-and I've never seen a publisher yet that could resist a certified check." Ran dom House could not resist, put some 222,060 shares of its stock on sale last October for 11¼. It was eagerly snapped up, now sells for about $31. Harcourt, Brace stock first went on the market last summer at 23½, is selling...
...JOHN C. BENNETT, dean of the faculty at Union Theological Seminary: There exists a "Protestant underworld that stirs up undisguised hatred of Catholics. What kind of a country do these Protestants want-a country in which 40 million citizens feel that they are outsiders...
...Merry Two-Step." Long before the 19th Amendment, women ran regularly, if fruitlessly, for high public office. Belva Bennett Lockwood, the first woman lawyer to be admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, was twice the presidential candidate of the Equal Rights Party (1884 and 1888); Mrs. Stanton stood for Congress in 1866, received a discouraging 24 votes. The first woman to win a national office was Montana's Republican Representative Jeanette Rankin, who took her seat four years before the 19th Amendment was passed. Crowed an elated suffragette: "Jeanette is the best stump speaker in Montana...
...publishers commit non-books, but some do it more than others. One of the most persistent is Bernard Geis, who operates as a kind of non-publisher, distributing his wares through Bennett Cerf's Random House, and setting up shop to promote non-books, including those of backers Art Linkletter (The Secret World of Kids) and Groucho Marx (Groucho and Me). Says Geis: "I want to do anything that can be done to get the audience back to books." Then he adds, less piously: "I don't care what kind of book...
Doyosi Ki-i-yeno. One evening last week, in an apartment motel in Van Nuys, seven Episcopalians of Father Bennett's former flock met together to await the coming of the Holy Spirit. Bursts of laughter from a television set across the courtyard invaded the reverent silence, but the two men and five women paid no attention, praying aloud from time to time for individuals in sickness or trouble and for "those who are resisting the out pouring of the Holy Spirit...