Word: bennette
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Harvard's performance in conforming to the wishes of its benefactors has traditionally been a major strength. Men such as George Bennett have at times been controversial for their narrow definition of the responsibilities of property ownership. But within the well-established framework of a university's obligations to its donors, stern adherence to ideals of proper conduct has been a source of strength to the school every since it was stung in the Arnold Arboretum suit several years ago. Harvard in the past has not broken lightly the terms of its endowments...
When she recovered, she hired Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams to file a million-dollar suit against the actor. "If Sinatra had attacked me as a reporter I would have taken it, but he attacked me as a woman," said Mrs. Cheshire, a mother of four. "I feel I owe it to my children to sue. I'm square enough that virtue means something...
...foil, the Crimson couldn't shake off the slumbers of inactivity and lost all but two bouts. Phillipe Bennett took a shaky 5-4 decision but Marion said that the bout "could have gone either way--it was nothing to be proud...
...Vocally, Bennett sounds like a rather reedy clarinet next to the French-horn sound of the older crooners, but he compensates for this with a cunning sense of phrasing that has made him a favorite of many musicians (among those who have happily accompanied him are Count Basic, Woody Herman and Duke Ellington). On a ballad like It Was You, he has a knack of letting the song rise lazily above him like cigar smoke. On standards like Mimi and End of a Love Affair, he is in the jazzy, hold-your-hat tradition. No less an authority than Frank...
...Boost. Born Antonio Benedetto 46 years ago, the son of Italian immigrants, Bennett grew up in a slum in New York City. One of his first professional bookings was as a singing waiter in a tough Italian restaurant on the Queens waterfront. "When the customers asked for a song, you knew it or else," he recalls. After a stint (1944-47) with the infantry in Germany, Bennett studied drama and music at New York's American Theater Wing. In 1950 he got a one-week engagement warming up the crowd for Pearl Bailey in Greenwich Village. When the week...