Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grammy awards - the Oscars of the record business-with Winners Roger Miller, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bill Cosby, Petula Clark, Jody Miller, the Anita Kerr singers, Duke Ellington and his band. Guests Tony Bennett and Robert Goulet perform the winning numbers. Bob Hope, Perry Como, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Godfrey Cambridge, Bill Dana and Henry Mancini are also on hand...
Renaissance Man. Boyish enthusiasm sits poorly on a professor, but an urgency and eagerness that transcend enthusiasm can be gripping. At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, English Professor Osborne Bennett ("O.B.") Hardison Jr., 37, wears scuffed shoes, drooping socks and chalk-streaked jacket, goes everywhere accompanied by a kindly dog named Poppo, and makes literature an urgent affair. O.B. revels in Joyce, turns Kant dramatic, convulses his class by acting out John Donne's poem The Flea. Hummingly in tune with the student wave length, he translates the oracle's prediction in Arcadia ("An uncouth love which...
...innings, but Harvard's long at-bats cooled him off and he walked five men in the seventh, which was mercifully the last inning. Box Score ab r h rbl Dockery, If 4 5 4 2 Grate, ss 5 3 2 3 Tobin, 3b 3 2 1 2 Bennett, 3b 1 1 1 0 Hootstein, rf 5 4 2 3 Welz, 1b 5 4 3 4 Lord, cf 4 2 1 2 Houston, 2b 4 1 3 3 Sikora, 2b 0 0 0 0 Liebgott, c 6 2 3 2 Scott, p 1 1 0 0 Munzel...
...trains." As an example of a freehanded spender with class, Beebe gives an account of Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner's paying Paderewski $3,000 to play at teatime for an elderly friend and herself on condition that he remain concealed behind a screen. Or James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald, who bought a restaurant in Monte Carlo one day because he could not get a seat by the window, cleared the restaurant of customers, lunched at leisure and then gave a waiter the deed to the place...
...Bennett hasn't proves to me what his position is on community participation," said Kenneth I. Guscott, president of the Boston NAACP. "He should come to Boston and defend himself before the executive committee...