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Appointed. Funnyman Robert Charles Benchley: to be Honorary Chief of the Worcester, Mass. Fire Department. Fire-chief Charles L. McCarthy made the appointment to fulfill Funnyman Benchley's boyhood ambition to serve his native city a fireman...
Hasty Pudding presents "Below zero"--Benchley reviewed as "the bright green oasis in the few deserts of dialogue...
Plans for the Reunion were started in January with the publication of the first issue of the "Twelve Twenty-Five Express," the class magazine. Contained in that number was a satirical retrospect in the manner of John Tunis '11 by one of the Class of 1912's sons, Robert Benchley...
...Humorist Benchley bemoaned the fact that his "sobering statistics" show "that practically nothing of consequence has been accomplished by the members of the class in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania and in all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
...Freshman year, while Sullivan was a member of the Reviews Committee. Election Results 1938 Ballot *Charles Russell Allen 185 *John Lyell Dampeer 171 *Francis Keppel 136 *Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr., 133 *Vernon Henry Struck 121 *Edward Larrabee Barnes 108 George Frederick Lowman 106 Morris Earle 104 Nathaniel Goddard Benchley 99 Herbert Bruce Griswold 97 Sheldon Ware 88 Wiley Edward Mayne 82 Gibson Winter 82 Caspar Willard Weinberger 79 Robert Wells Snyder 76 Peter Thacher Brooks 75 James Sinclair Armstron 59 Richard Talliesyn Davis 59 Aaron Jerome Himelhoch 56 Philip Truman Shahan 52 Paul Massik 46 Carlos Colton Daughaday...