Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...absorb additional glimpses and reports on the men. The undecided will pile up all the pieces of information gathered through these weeks and see which way the scale tips-if it does tip either way. With them, a small item might make the difference. The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee figures that the ingredients will be "seven or eight parts TV, three or four parts reading, one part wife or husband, one part drugstore, one part religion and one part geography...
...picture which was made by MGM in 1942. Hepburn found the script by two young writers and tricked the knish-like despot who ran the studio, Louis B. Mayer, into paying a huge sum for the rights by inferring that it was by the unfailingly successful team of writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their own names.) Mayer bit and the screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. went into production with the two baby authors making bundles and Hepburn taking an agent...
FORTY-SEVENTH STREET between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in New York, known in the city as the diamond district, is just about the single most Jewish street imaginable, Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Boulevard not excepted. How does the idea of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminal, the notorious "White Angel" of Auschwitz, strolling down this street, stopping into stores and having his diamonds appraised, appeal to you? Suppose you then discovered that he had extracted these diamonds from doomed Jews in return for granting them their freedom, and then had dispatched them to their deaths. And what...
...America's press, advertising or television. What it does want to do, however, is jam the issue so full with big names as to appeal to anyone interested in the latest gossip in all three areas. Those curious about the seamier side of the press will enjoy reading about "Ben and Sally." T.V. viewers will no doubt want to read about Walter and Walters. Advertising moguls can learn what Ted Bates is up to. And those ubiquitous Times watchers should get out their scorecards: there must be more than 25 familiar bylines in this 56-page issue. Everyone is mentioned...
Reading of Text and Discussion Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, Friday, 7:30 pm. as part of the Conservative Service...