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...Bentinck-Smith's literary aspirations began back in 1935 when, as a sophomore, he went out for the Advocate competition. He was a bit soured on extra-curricular activities because he had been cut from the football managers' competition the day before the Yale game. The Advocate caught him on the rebound, but not as a writer. He was elected to the advertising board, and considers the training excellent experience: "As Roy Larsen, the president of Time-Life, points out, 'If you can sell ads for the Advocate, you can sell anything...
After graduation, Bentinck-Smith enrolled in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia. One year later he went west, where he almost decided to buy a small paper in Nevada. He gravitated back to Boston, however, married, and began raising his four-child family. Up to 1940, Bentinck-Smith did rewrite for the Boston Globe, later alternating with leg work and the City Hall beat. The experience was brief but intoxicating. "I don't think I'll ever get over the feeling of being a newspaper man," he reflects. But when he heard about an opening with the Bulletin, Bentinck...
Before the war, Bentinck-Smith's occupations were literary in one form or another, and the the prospect of military service was not an appealing one. "I was," he recalls, "a green, innocent fellow from Harvard; a guy, more a writer than a warrior, who found himself on a battleship in the Coral Sea." He served on Rear Admiral Willis Lee's communications staff and later was stationed in Washington...
...Bulletin. In spare moments he worked on The Harvard Book, an anthology about the College and its history. Published last fall, the volume has been chosen as the Harvard prize book, to be given to about 600 of the country's top juniors in prep and high schools. Bentinck-Smith denies any literary pretentions, however. He has tried creative writing and poetry, but "I don't think my mind works that way. I've always been very fond of editing...
...speaks of his recent change in occupation, Bentinck-Smith leans back and surveys his new Massachusetts Hall office. "It's kind of a wrench to change your whole way of life," he says. One of his favorite contrasts is the linoleum floor of the Bulletin's Wadsworth House offices with his present red carpet. "I sometimes wonder," he concludes, "if I'm not a linoleum man at heart...