Word: benchleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, of Scarsdale, N. Y., has been chosen this year's Ivy Orator by the 1938 Class Day Committee, it was announced last night. Competition between Benchley and Timothy J. Reardon, Jr. '38 was so keen that the committee was unable to choose between the two after Tuesday's trials, and a further one was held yesterday afternoon. Reardon was named as alternate...
...Benchley was president of the Lampoon...
...book is by Nathaniel Benchley, '38, Benjamin Welles, '38, and John Graham, '38. They have pieced together a tale of international intrigue including everyone from Mussolini to Princess Elizabeth. The plot concerns a group of American business men, who, tired of being mere economic royalists, decide to go in for the more traditional form of monarchy, and set up the Kingdom of Cafeteria in the heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome...
...Albanian Orthodox Church. Moreover, there are 25,000 Albanian-born Christians in the U. S. Most of the 10,000 living in New England belong to the Christian Albanian Church. The founder of this church, named Fan Stylian Noli, is a Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt. He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard undergraduate, an able shotputter, an Orthodox bishop aged 19; for Fan Noli, on leaving his Turkish-ruled native land, took pains to organize the church...
Nathaniel P. Benchley '38, one of the authors of the book, will give a humorous lecture on how to write a musical comedy, and, together with Benjamin Dillingham '39, Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, and Welles, act in a skit, "Professor Benchley's Workshop, or Romeo and Juliet Rewritten." The chorus of 20 will also sing...