Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hamilton's go-between was British Major George Beckwith, who was assumed to be Britain's de facto Minister to the U.S., but who in fact had been a master spy since 1780 when he arranged the defection of Benedict Arnold. The major and the Secretary rendezvoused five times, Beckwith relaying his information to London in coded dispatches that referred to his high-placed source as "Number...
Culpepper's play, Treason at West Point, a chronicle play about Benedict Arnold, will be given a full seven-night run at the Loeb Drama Center in May, with the Anderson trust fund underwriting the production costs...
...just the thing for chiseling beneath a statue. Thanking the newspaper for 60th-birthday greetings, he strays from the subject of age to that of ages and says that he is impatient with the notion "that this age is one of the worst in the world's history. Arnold claimed the honor for the age before this. Wordsworth claimed it for the last but one ... It is immodest of a man to think of himself as going down before the worst forces ever mobilized...
...chuckled impishly, lined up his putt-a straight-in 15-footer-and missed. It was a fitting climax to pro golf's 1964 season, a wacky eleven months in which a reformed rake named Tony Lema won four tournaments in six incredible weeks; in which Old (35) Master Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masters and still lost the money-winning title to burly Wunderkind Nicklaus, 24-by the margin of Brewer's bungled putt and $81.13 in cash...
...careful inspection and analysis by staff members of the Arnold Arboretum has established the identity of the trees along Memorial Drive that are to be moved for underpasses as "a hybrid of long standing between an American and Eurasian species of Platanus...