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Robert C. Benchley

The Benchley Roundup

A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of his Favorites

359 pages,     © 1983

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9780226042183   Published October 2001

Foreword
"Take the Witness!"
How to Get Things Done
The Social Life of the Newt
Football Rules or Whatever They Are
The Tortures of Week-End Visting
From Nine to Five
Shakespeare Explained
Christmas Afternoon
Family Life in America
Do Insects Think?
The Stranger Within Our Gates
Opera Synopses
Malignant Mirrors
How to Understand International Finance
Kiddie-Kar Travel
Uncle Edith's Ghost Story
French for Americans
Is This the Missing Link?
The Mystery of the Poisoned Kipper
"Ask That Man"
Editha's Christmas Burglar
What Does it Mean?
A Talk to Young Men
Paul Revere's Ride
Throwing Back the European Offensive
More Songs for Meller
Compiling an American Tragedy
Inter-office Memo
Fascinating Crimes
Back to the Game
The Typical New Yorker
Carnical Week in Sunny Las Los
Another Uncle Edith Christmas Story
If These Old Wall Could Talk!
Happy Childhood Tales
The Sunday Menace
Can We Believe Our Eyes?
The King's English: Not Murder but Suicide
"One Minute, Please!"
Looking Shakespeare Over
How I Create
First-Catch Your Criminal
The Noon Telephone Operatir
Fall In!
"Could You Tell Me...?"
The Wreck of the Sunday Paper
What—No Budapest?
Mind's Eye Trouble
How to Understand Music
The King and the Old Man
The Real Public Enemies
Matinees—Wednesday and Saturdays
The Chinese Situation
Saturday;s Smells
Route Nationale 14
Naming Our Flowers
Jonny-on-the-Spot
Down with Pigeons
Contributors to This Issue
No Pullmans, Please!
Mysteries from the Sky
Isn't It Remarkable?
Do Dreams Go by Opposites?
New from Home
The Children's Hour
Baclk to Mozart
Spy Scares
Artist's Model Succumbs!
Ladies Wild
Cocktail Hour
Why We Laugh-or Do We?
Weather Records
Home Made Jokes
Men of Harlech!
Summer Shirtings
Word Torture
"I Know of It"
The Card
How Long Can You Live?
My Face
Easy Tests
Encore
Hey, Waiter!
Sporting Life in America
Why I am Pale
Whoa!
The Menace of Buttered Toast
Do I Hear Twenty Thousand?
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