This is a pretty darned special item: a recording of Bennett speaking at a "Books and Authors" luncheon on November 27, 1952. The 6 minute clip here is the portion where he talks about WML (with a perfunctory slideshow added).
Though he stops well short of calling Hal Block a "clod" as he did in his oral history interview years later, you can hear that even in 1952 when they were still co-panelists Bennett wasn't shy about voicing his opinion of Hal. There's also a very interesting bit where Bennett explains what John Daly really meant in the final segments when he would warn the panelists "We only have 3 or 4 minutes left. . ."
Bennett also reveals what I consider the one downside of WML: it apparently provided anecdote fodder for Bennett's insufferable columns. I have to hand it to him, though-- the one he tells at the end here sure does kill the audience. But even Hal wouldn't have tried to tell this one on WML. Or, to coin a new internet abbreviation: NSFWML.
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18 июн 2015
