Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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B.S.A.A., with the old British fire in its pink Socialist eye, talked about 24-hour service from London to rival Pan American's projected one-day Constellation schedule from New York to Buenos Aires. Last week, B.S.A.A.'s glamor boy and general manager, Air Vice Marshal Donald Bennett, was reported souping up a Mosquito in London to show that it could be done...
Ezra Pound got into a Random House poetry anthology that had excluded him as a traitor, but Publisher Bennett Cerf took pains to be understood. He had finally decided, said Cerf in his Saturday Review of Literature column, to reinstate the poet, chiefly because: "Once begun, where can you draw the line in this sort of thing? . . . This does not mean," Cerf hastened to say, "that my abhorrence for Ezra Pound the man has abated one iota. . . ." To make assurance doubly, sure, Cerf would run a footnote characterizing Pound as "a contemptible betrayer of his country...
Divorced. By Sylvia Sidney, 37, cinemactress and onetime wife of Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf: Luther Adler, 42, actor son of famed Yiddish Actor Jacob P. Adler; after seven and a half years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had backpedaled before a Quill strike threat only a month before (over a proposed sale of the city's subway power plants to Consolidated Edison) seemed helpless to move anywhere this time. The city's counsel, John J. Bennett Jr. had issued a ruling: "It is clear that no one group of civil-service employes can be granted sole and exclusive bargaining rights as against a governmental body such as the [New York City] Board of Transportation...
...only serene person in Jamaica was Percival Bennett, a convicted murderer awaiting execution in St. Catherine prison. His sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, after the hangman had answered Norman Manley's strike call...