Word: bennett
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Former employees of Alfred A. (for Abraham) Knopf, a publisher with the appearance and manner of a retired Cossack sergeant, recall that on the frequent occasions when Knopf was displeased, he would rumble: "If this keeps up, I'm going to sell to Bennett Cerf." At last, without a frown, Knopf has sold. The price, according to Random House President Cerf: in the neighborhood of 135,000 shares of Random House stock, worth roughly $3,000,000. Knopf and his wife Blanche, an aloof, astringent woman who is the firm's president (her husband is chairman), will still...
...long-delayed case, which had been under federal investigation for more than four years, was haphazardly prosecuted by the Government; two of three original charges against Powell were thrown out during the trial when the government failed to support the charges. Powell himself was brilliantly defended by Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, attorney in the past for such defendants as Jimmy Hoffa, Frank Costello and the late Senator Joe McCarthy. After 26 hours of deliberation, the confused and divided jury (10-2 for acquittal) was dismissed, and Judge Frederick vanPelt Bryan recessed the case until May 12, when he will consider...
Would the church try to outlaw divorce or birth control? No, say Bennett and Schlesinger. Bennett fears that the Catholics "will" (he does not say "would") try to make divorce "too difficult." But he does not foresee an effort to pass any further laws barring birth control, though "here is an area where there will be a good deal of conflict in the future." Historian Schlesinger agrees that future birth control legislation is unlikely, but castigates Catholic resistance to repeal of existing laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut (passed by Yankee Protestants in the 18703) as "mistaken and offensive...
Would Catholics in the majority vote Government subsidies for parochial schools? Both Schlesinger and Bennett feel that Catholics would like to go as far as possible in this direction, which says Schlesinger, . would be doing the church a "great disservice" by provoking anti-Catholic resentment. Says Bennett: "We might be able to discuss this issue with greater moderation if we would admit that, whatever the objections to parochial schools, the present emphasis on them is a natural response to the secularization of public education; [this is] also a problem for Protestants, about which they do very little...
Would the Catholics exercise rigid censorship on literature, movies, television? "We can expect a good deal of Catholic pressure along these lines," says Bennett. Organizations such as the Legion of Decency and the National Organization for Decent Literature, writes Schlesinger, "have already meddled outrageously with the freedom of non-Catholics . . ." But he sees them as "transient phenomena...