Eric Bentley and Arthur Miller

 Arthur Miller who died Thursady last at the age of 89--same vintage of Eric Bentley--
was on bad terms with him, and the two never talked to each other since
mid-l950s when Miller refused EB's extended hand to be shaken in an
elevator that got them together on their way to a formal lunch at the Dag
Hamersgold office in the UN when good old Dag was UN Secretary-General,
and he enjoyed a literary taste which made him pay tribute to
men-of-letters by inviting them to lunches, dinners and what-not. Dag
himself was a poet, though an unpublished one.
Reason of AM-EB rift is that the latter wrote an article in which he
gave the impression that Elia Kazan was instructing AM (and Tennessee
Williams) how to playwrite. TW also got cross with EB, but was less severe
in his rift with him. It was AM who instigated TW against EB.