{"id":772,"date":"2012-09-02T01:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=772"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:03:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:03:31","slug":"year-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1946: <strong>Plays of Our Time<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Bennet Cerf<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1048998~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_IceManCometh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-773\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_IceManCometh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_IceManCometh.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_IceManCometh-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_IceManCometh-624x516.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published in 1946, this book is described as anthology of the best plays produced on Broadway in the last two decades.\u00a0 Included are such classics as:\u00a0 The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O\u2019Neill, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams and Death of A Salesman by Author Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The editor Bennett Cerf was a well know television personality and supporter of the arts.\u00a0 During his lifetime (1898-1971) he edited many books and also hosted a radio show, \u201cBooks Are Bullets,\u201d on which he interviewed authors of war books.\u00a0 He was a permanent panelist on the television quiz show \u201cWhat\u2019s My Line?,\u201d which ran to summer 1967 and earned him national public recognition. His personal papers are are in the library at Columbia University in New York City.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_PlaysOfOurTime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-774 alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-right: 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_PlaysOfOurTime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_PlaysOfOurTime.jpg 656w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_PlaysOfOurTime-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_PlaysOfOurTime-624x665.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/web_Contentspage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1886\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin-left: 20px;margin-right: 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/web_Contentspage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/web_Contentspage.jpg 449w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/web_Contentspage-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1946: Plays of Our Time Author\/Editor: Bennet Cerf Find it in Collins Library! Published in 1946, this book is described as anthology of the best plays produced on Broadway in the last two decades.\u00a0 Included are such classics as:\u00a0 The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O\u2019Neill, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams and Death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1938-1947"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}