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"Sunday Nights At Seven: The Jack Benny Story." By Jack Benny and his daughter Joan. Warner Books. $19.95.

"He was a nice man," writes George Burns in the foreword to this book by and about his friend of 50 years, a sentiment readers will resoundingly agree with. When Jack Benny died at age 80 in 1974, he left this unpublished autobiography, to which his daughter adds family accounts.

Far more entertaining and moving is Jack Benny's related story, tracing how the onetime vaudeville trouper who left his native Waukegan, Ill., in his youth rose to stardom on radio, in TV and films. The secret of his tremendous appeal, he reveals - as though taking us into ...

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