Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Nehemia Argov, 43, was Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's shadow. He was the only military aide the old man ever had-a gentle, universally loved man who himself loved only his chief. Unmarried, he lived only for Ben-Gurion, issued orders in his name that Cabinet officers accepted unquestioningly. "There are only two people who matter in the state-Ben-Gurion and me," he said, not in arrogance, but in devotion so great that it amounted to identification. One day last fortnight, as he drove into Jerusalem, a wasp flew in the window of Argov...
Next morning Argov did not appear at the ministry to receive the message that the cyclist was out of danger. Friends broke into his flat, found him sitting at his desk, dead. There was a bullet wound in his temple; by his side, letters to the police and Ben-Gurion. "To my deep regret." said the note to the police, "I cannot bear living in the circumstances which have occurred. I imagine I have some friends who will be sorry for what I am going to do. I beg them not to be angry. I am not worthy...
...funeral, and his doctor refused to accept responsibility for the consequences. Since B-G is an avid newspaper reader, Argov's friends persuaded Israel's editors to print special editions for the old man, without any mention of his aide's death. The state radio (Ben-Gurion never listens to anything but Kol Israel) omitted the news from its broadcasts...
...York Journal-American's Jack O'Brian: "Crosby seemed to smile as if in constant pain. Closeups presented his face with a seemingly endless mouth and large lips which seemed to be pulled vertically apart as if with unseen strings." The Daily News's mild Ben Gross proposed that John "do something to control his twitching." The San Francisco Chronicle's Terrence O'Flaherty found him "nervous as an unprepared high-school valedictorian." And Variety spelled it out: "He forgot entire sentences and cues. He's far too deadpan. He has a tendency...
...Stutz, 33, vice president since 1955 of I. Miller retail stores, 17-store subsidiary of General Shoe Corp., one of the world's largest shoe companies, was named president of Henri Bendel Inc., swank Manhattan specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched to journalism, spent...