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Leon Uris, 'Exodus' author, dies, 78 Best-selling novelist achieved greatest fame for fictional chronicle
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NEW YORK -- Leon Uris, whose best-selling novel "Exodus" offered
the world a heroic tale of the founding of Israel and an image of
Jews as muscular, sunburned avengers, has died at 78.
Uris, who died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home on
New York's Shelter Island, was as much an adventurer as an author,
and his other novels included the spy thriller "Topaz"; the courtroom
drama "QBVII"; "Mila 18," about the Jewish uprising in Warsaw during
World War II; and "Trinity," an epic about the Irish.
But it was "Exodus," published in 1958, that created the biggest
sensation among ...
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Benchley, shaking change out of the world's pockets
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Benchley. By Billy Altman. Norton. $30. As Robert Benchley once put it: "By 1936, we of course mean 1934...of it. But don't ask a cow to explain milk. Robert Charles Benchley (1889-1945) was one of these givers of milk...
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Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in Jefferson County, New York, 1800-1840.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; Calling Down Fire: Charles Grandison Finney and Revivalism in...two kinds of people in the world," Robert Benchley observed, "those who believe there...after 1830, brought about in part by Charles Grandison Finney, whose career mirrored...
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Dogs, Snoopy and Charles M Schulz
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail
; ...turn around three times before lying down,'' quipped Robert Benchley) to old age. And in return all they want is food...that populated the Peanuts strip until its creator, Charles M Schulz, called it a day to fight cancer in January...
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AUTHOR IS OFF MARK IN WEAK BIOGRAPHY OF FAMED HUMORIST.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...post-literate age. Benchley could assume that his...alludes only to itself, Benchley's literary references...he mangle names like Charles Evans Hughes and Scarlett...school would ``cause Robert to aspire to a more upscale lifestyle.'' Benchley rebuked an actor in...
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`Vicious Circle' Boasts Satire in the Round
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Jennifer Jason Leigh Robert Benchley Campbell Scott Charles MacArthur Matthew...likely to recognize Robert Sherwood, Edna Ferber...she married twice; Charles MacArthur (Matthew...long-suffering Robert Benchley. History does not...
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
Magazine article from: Cineaste
; ...Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Robert Benchley (Campbell Scott...1920s, when she and Benchley were daily companions...affair with journalist Charles MacArthur (Matthew...friendship and love of Benchley, the monologs capture...
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Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections.(INSIGHT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...finally electrocuted at the Charles Street Jail on Aug. 23...in the famous case was Robert Benchley, the humorist and film maker. Mr. Benchley had long since moved out...more of the same in the Benchley affidavit but that was...
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The Literary Life
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...long since we published Charles Williams's magnum...30 years since Peter Benchley's Jaws was first published...Title reveals that Mr Benchley had great difficulty...father [the humorist Robert Benchley] didn't like it...
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Roaring '20s queen of quips wasn't a whole load of laughs
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...Jennifer Jason Leigh Robert Benchley....Campbell Scott Charles MacArthur....Matthew...cattier literati (among them Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman...Parker's best friend, Robert Benchley, is especially fine...
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ARTS With their wits about them
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...lifelong best friend, Robert Benchley, the only man that everybody...was back in England. Benchley was, by all accounts...They were joined by Robert Sherwood, a man six...satire on Hollywood), Charles MacArthur (who teamed...
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