Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ben Jonson's satire of morals, dwelling mostly on their absence in XVI century Venice, toys with the problem of what men will do for money. If they want it badly enough, Jonson decided that "anything" was the answer, and worked it out in terms of wife-swapping, son-disinheriting, and general self-abasement. These are the pastimes of three confirmed lickspittles groveling after the fortune of a nouveau rich merchant. Each reaches a more advanced state of abject greed than his neighbor, and all an egged on by Volpone's social secretary, Mosca...
While Little does find himself with two prize quarterbacks this year, his line lacks depth and he makes infrequent substitutions there. When Ben Hoffman, left tackle, left game with a bruised leg during Yale's second scoring drive, the Lions really felt his lose...
...avoid noise-and enmity-the Air Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...
...Army's retired Lieut. General Ben Lear, 75, came a reward for a career of unswerving military precision (which began when he got into the Spanish-American War as a first sergeant): the fourth star of a full general. Ben Lear was a well-rounded enough soldier to ride on the U.S. horsemen's team in the 1912 Olympics, smart enough to serve as General Dwight Eisenhower's ETO Deputy Commander in 1945. But he will probably rack up his chief fame in military annals as the iron-willed disciplinarian ("No mistake should ever go uncorrected...
...Married. Ben (for Benjamin) Grauer, 46, former child movie star and longtime NBC announcer reputed to be the "most often heard man in history," currently M.C. of NBC radio's Conversation (and on call for such special events as conventions, elections, sportscasts), and Melanie Kahane, thirtyish, New York interior decorator; he for the first time, she for the second; in Manhattan...