Word: ben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ben Shahn, formerly Diego Rivera's assistant, will present the "true story which has never been told before" about the Rockefeller Center mural controversy at 4:30 p.m. today in the New Lecture Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the English A Department...
Alexander Knox has written a play that lacks only a soaring bat flapping about the stage. Be it understood that there is nothing wrong in that. If a playwright can arrange to have unknown hands reach out from doors, a Big Ben-like clock strike off-stage at tense moments, and blood trickle over door sills,--if he can work all of these (and more, as in this case) into his script without causing his audience to titter at the overlarding, then hooray...
...little later, and several blocks to the north, Ben Davis beamed down on another cheering crowd from the balcony of Harlem's Theresa Hotel, with Paul Robeson at his side. Both looked mighty pleased with the way things were going...
...DIARY FROM DIXIE (572 pp.)-Mary Boykin Chesnut-Edited by Ben Ames Williams-Houghton Mifflin...
...inaugurated, Mrs. Chesnut began to keep a journal. After the war she transcribed her jottings, found that they filled 50 notebooks. At her death in 1886 she left them to a girlhood friend, who had them published in a highly expurgated edition. The re-editing job that Novelist Ben Ames Williams has done on Mary Chesnut may not only change the old picture of a slightly stuffy diarist, it may also alter a few notions of what life in the Confederacy was like...