Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia's expanding textile industry, Democrat Byrd says he may support some amendments. Utah Republican Wallace Bennett is worried about his State's lead and zinc industries; Oklahoma Democrat Robert Kerr, Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson and Kansas Republican Frank Carlson are looking over their shoulders at the oilmen back home...
Look & Listen. The ideal straight man of the quiz shows is Publisher Bennett Cerf of What's My Line? He fills the role of the man of substance, serious, determined, but not quite as scintillating as the rest of the panel. When he does solve a contestant's trade, he is likely to worry the problem like a dog with a bone, asking repeated questions long after it is obvious to even the dullest viewer that he knows the answer. Cerf's apparent function is to slow down the headlong pace of the game. He does...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). The world's ten best novels, discussed by John Mason Brown, Jacques Barzun, Bennett Cerf, Clifton Fadiman...
Hume Cronyn has a busy night. He plays the double role of gruff, vain Bennett Honey, who sprinkles false dandruff on his toupee, and his boorish brother Curtis, who decorates his living room with animal heads. (The living room, incidentally, is wonderfully bizarre: Ben Edwards' other setting is too.) Cronyn grumbles his way admirably through both parts, and manages to make the Honeys just similar enough to be twins but different enough to be two people...
...best things about an Addams cartoon is its abruptness. The Honeys suffers mainly because it is not abrupt enough; the macabre spirit wears off too early in the evening. The play's humor reaches its peak in the second act, when the freshly killed Bennett, his head covered with a lampshade, sways back and forth in the living room while the female Honeys entertain a guest. From this point on, the author's morbid inspiration slowly flickers out, and the humor of the last act consists largely of geographical jokes ("Sinning is in its infancy in Boston") and the standard...