A founder of the Algonquin Round Table and frequent writer for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, Benchley influenced generations of humorists, from James Thurber to Dave Barry
The Nazis had stolen many of the recovered works from prominent Jewish collectors, raising lingering questions of restitution.
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