Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James V. Bennett, director of the nation's federal prisons, is a gentle man of 70 who often sounds like a movie warden with a heart of gold. He speaks of his 22,000 charges as "individuals with hearts, lungs and emotions like everyone else." He frets that "our criminal laws are the most severe in the world." Yet in his 27 years of guarding the likes of Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelley, Bennett has been as hard as he has been soft. Of 700,000 federal prisoners during his tenure, only six have flown the coop...
Harlem's Golden Age began. "Meat was cheap and home brew was strong," wrote Historian Lerone Bennett. "Duke Ellington was at the Cotton Club and Satchmo was at the Sunset, God was in heaven and Father Divine was in Harlem." Those were the days of speakeasies with names like Glory Hole and Basement Brownie's Coal Bed, of stompin' at the Savoy and vaudeville at the Apollo, of "rent parties" where guests paid 50? or $1 to help the host pay his rent and got all the food and drink-and sometimes sex-that they could manage...
...PARADE (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Singer Tony Bennett displays his talents in an elaborately staged solo concert...
...BENNETT CERF...
...John Coleman Bennett,-president of Union Theological Seminary...