Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheath attached to his belt. His hands were toying with an old pipe which had lost half of its stem many years ago. On one wall was hanging a black-board which read "Crimson interview at 1:30--Later: Finish 'Mass Appeal' Chapter--Look for Hickey Letter--Write Ben Hibbs." Bill explained that Admiral Hickey is the Navy Public Information Chief and Ben Hibbs is the editor of the Saturday Evening Post...
Wise old Marshal Lyautey singled out Mohammed Ben Youssef from among his brothers and made him Sultan at the age of 17. Although Sultan Sidi Mohammed, now 40, still signs the country's dahirs (laws), he has no administrative or military power. A French official stands beside him at all meetings with foreigners. But as a descendant of the Prophet Mohammed, the Sultan wields great influence among the world's 300 million Moslems. In his youth he was fond of fast automobiles and purebred Arab horses, seemed an ideal stooge. But in his late 205, Sidi Mohammed became...
Follow the Sun (20th Century-Fox) follows the career of Golfer Ben Hogan from his beginnings as a caddy to his stirring comeback in 1950's Los Angeles Open, a year after he was almost crushed to death in an auto wreck (TIME, Feb. 14, 1949). Hollywood's first major film about golf - and the first in a new cycle of sport movies* - sticks reasonably close to the facts, and the facts add up to one of sport's most inspiring stories...
Deerfield's coach, Ben Haviland, teaches his men to use long sticks and to play a hard-checking, long-passing game...
Last week Ben Reese, 62, had a more personal piece of news for the staff: he was retiring in June. His successor: Raymond L. Crowley (rhymes with holy), 55, P-D staffer for 29 years, city editor for 13, whom Reese had been quietly grooming for the past four years. Like Bovard, hard-boiled Ben Reese would leave his successor a legend to compete with...