Word: bentleys
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Brothman's name was not a new one in the long investigation of Soviet espionage. Elizabeth Bentley, ex-Soviet agent, told a grand jury in 1947 that Brothman, a Columbia University graduate, had given her information which she had passed on to the Soviet ring. Brothman told the jurors that he gave Miss Bentley only simple chemical formulas, and that for the purpose of getting legitimate contracts from Russia for his chemical engineering firm...
ELEPHANT'S WORK (277 pp.)-E C. Bentley-Knopf...
...judgment of his peers can. be trusted, Englishman Edmund Clerihew* Bentley wrote one of the best detective stories of the 20th Century. G. K. Chesterton flatly named Trent's Last Case (1913) "the finest detective story of modern times." Agatha Christie calls it "one of the three best detective stories ever written." Bentley himself put another book at the top of his list: John Buchan's hare & hounds thriller, The Thirty-Nine Steps. He said as much to Author Buchan one day, and Buchan replied: "Why don't you write a shocker yourself? It's twenty...
...wasn't, at least not for E. C. Bentley. Elephant's Work is written as smoothly as whipped cream, and it is not a jot more thrilling that a session with a charlotte russe...
...first U.S. dance company to hit Pans since the war had been greeted by a very small Allõ. The French like ballet but they like it classical; and the Ruth Page-Bentley Stone Ballet Company's big number, Frankie and Johnny, was just raw American barbarism to the French audience (TIME, May 22). As the first shock wore off, the audiences and critics became more tolerant but hardly less puzzled. Last week a second wave of U.S. dancers reached Paris...