Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...UNCONQUERED (689 pp.)−Ben Ames Williams-Thomas Allen...
...Ben Ames Williams was that rare creature, a historical novelist who cared about history. When he died last February at 63 he had written some 30 books (which sold 5,200,000 copies), many of them forming a kind of family album of the U.S. in wartime. Come Spring was a tale of Revolutionary days, Thread of Scarlet a close-up of the War of 1812, House Divided took in four sprawling years of Confederate history. The books were honest, uninspired, but engagingly readable-triumphs of plausibility and painstaking research...
...SPORT) gave off a loud pooh-pooh. All the talk about Ben Hogan being the world's greatest golfer "makes me a little sick," Mangrum said. He knew "half a dozen" pros who would "do just as well as Hogan if they could afford to pick their spots." He didn't want to "knock" Ben. but "it's a little ridiculous, all this notoriety." Said Hogan: "I don't answer things like that...
...around Rome, work was going forward on a production by a new screen writer: Homer. With assists from such upstart scenarists as Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw, Homer's Odyssey was being filmed in plaster caves and palaces and on board a Greek galley (thoughtfully provided with an engine as well as 100 oarsmen). The stars: Kirk Douglas as a bearded Ulysses, and lush Silvana Mangano as both Circe and Penelope...
...profit of General Motors was $162 million v. $142 million a year ago. U.S. Steel's second-quarter net was $55,640,806, up from $22,218,922 a year earlier. Summing up the effects of the truce on the U.S. economy, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Chairman Ben Moreell declared: "A war economy is a destructive thing . . . The farther we go down the road to peace the better off we will...