Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compliments for a job well done in presenting a profile of Bennett Cerf [Dec. 16]. I have always admired the man and enjoyed his brand of humor...
...cover portrait of Bennett Cerf, his head below a truncated M, gives him somewhat the appearance of a horned owl, a symbol of wisdom not inappropriate, though Mr. Cerf is a mite less taciturn...
...other Americans were convicted of black-market currency operations last week. The trial took place in Saigon, and the sentences, handed down by a Vietnamese judge, were every bit as harsh as the punishment in Moscow. Found guilty of trading off $36,850 in American military scrip, Paul Lee Bennett, 36, and Merle Verne Brown, 28, both of whom had been civilian employees of a construction company, were together fined $36,850 and sentenced to five years apiece in Saigon's dank Chi Hoa prison. Three other Americans are already serving time in Chi Hoa for similar offenses...
...only child of well-off Jewish parents whose ancestors came from France. His father, Gustave, was a successful lithographer who designed ketchup-bottle labels and cigarette cartons, and his mother had a comfortable income from her family's wholesale tobacco business. Neither of these pursuits entranced young Bennett at all. Nor did a literary career. By the time he graduated from Columbia in 1919 with a B.A. degree in journalism and a Phi Beta Kappa key, his mother had died, leaving him $100,000. With nothing better in mind, "Beans," as Cerf was known in those days, joined...
...Bennett was an extraordinarily handsome young man. It was murderous. He had a Cadillac-what more did you need?-and his dark, soulful eyes were even more soulful because he couldn't see out of them. They were magnified by the glasses he'd always worn...