Word: bentinck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this new post, Bentinck-Smith meets not only the world's leading scholars, but its leading screwballs as well. "Strangely enough," an associate on the Bulletin says of him, "dealing with screwballs is the forte of this good, solid, man. He has enough humor to appreciate screwballism." So, the incensed anti-Communist or the Fcencyite to whom the President is always busy, might find himself ushered into Bentinck-Smith's office where he will find a patient listener...
...evolved into final form. "The President is so busy," Bentinck-Smith says, "I just do what I can, or he thinks I can, to try to help him." This means doing research for special reports, answering the less routine of the President's mail, and showing up at receptions when the President can't make...
...somewhat removed from Bentinck-Smith's past experience, but Pusey felt he could use the tact and the interest in Harvard which marked the successful Bulletin years. On his side, Bentinck-Smith accepted the offer for two reasons: "First, it will give me a chance to serve Harvard in a larger field. And then, too, my admiration for Mr. Pusey influenced me to accept his unexpected offer...
...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...