Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Died. Bennett Cerf, 73, book publisher (Random House), nonstop punster and professional TV gamesman; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. After graduating from Columbia in 1919, Cerf bought his way into the book trade as a vice president of Boni & Liveright; in 1925 he borrowed from a wealthy uncle on Wall Street to buy the Modern Library from that failing firm for $200,000, later used its reprint profits to form a new company that would publish books at random, hence the name Random House. Despite his latter-day public reputation as syndicated humorist and smirking jokester of TV's What...
Commenting on the decision, George F. Bennett '33 said that GM had created jobs for blacks as well as for whites in South Africa. "For GM to shut down would put a lot of blacks out of work," he said...
...Although Bennett agreed that blacks generally occupy more menial positions than whites in South Africa, he said, "If you were a black down there, would you rather have no job or a job not as good as a white...
...were. For every Hansberry (who might well have been the only black in the class) there was someone like the guy who headed Standard Oil and now spends his time at golf or bridge. Or the alumnus in this class who managed the financial affairs of Harvard before George Bennett got his grasping hands on the portfolios. Or the one who finds the greatest pleasures in life at the Myopia Hunt Club. Or the one who boasts that his granddaughter helped elect James Buckley Senator of New York. Or the countless number of alumni who counted out their years...
William B. Beekman of Eliot House and New York City; Maurice J. Bennett of Mather House and Overland Park, Kansas; Thomas J. Berndt of Cabot Hall and South Bend, Indiana; David W. Boorstein of 18 Ware St. and Washington, D. C.; Sanford F. Borins of Winthrop House and Toronto, Canada...