Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert Charles ("Bob") Benchley, 56, a sly wag with an inexact mustache, a burbling laugh and one of the world's warmest wits; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Best-known and loved as an author (The Treasurer's Report; After 1903, What?) and cinemono-loguist (Love Life of a Polyp; How to Sleep), diffident Bob Benchley got a diffident start with the Curtis Publishing Co. ("They stayed in Philadelphia in their small way, and I went to Boston"). He managing-edited Conde Nast's brilliant Vanity Fair, wrote drama criticism for the old Life...
Society Is Here. His first Journal-American, column stated the new Cholly's credo: "I have the warmest sentiments for the Spotlighted Creatures to whose exploits, witticisms and 'modus vivendi' this space will be devoted. ... I frankly and firmly believe in Society. .. . Not prompted by any desire to slander the grand Old Guard ... I want to bring it back where it belongs-to full honors and to the headlines. . . . Society is here to stay...
...also a week when conflict was farthest from the common will of com mon men. Plain Russians in Moscow, bursting with good will, impartially hoist ed British and Russian soldiers and car ried them through Red Square. U.S. sol diers and correspondents in Germany found only the warmest friendliness when they managed to break past official barriers and meet Russian soldiers. Hundreds upon hundreds of letters came every day to the U.S. delegates at San Francisco, saying that the conference must find a way to peace. Ordinary Britons and Americans wanted as never before to under stand Russia, and found...
...Librettist Hammerstein has not given Carousel the full flavor of Molnar, at least he has given it all the interest of a true play. His script is always simple, sometimes touching, never flashy, only here & there a little cute. And Composer Rodgers has swathed it in one of his warmest and most velvety scores. More than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This...
...these, our warmest thanks. Cordially...