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...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...
...town wit, he sat far above the salt when the Hotel Algonquin's famed Round Table was the spawning ground of Manhattan sophisticates, has long terrorized his enemies with his thrusts, has served without pay as publicity agent for such other town wits as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman...
Thirty-six nominations for the Second Senior Election to fill the posts of Class Secretary, Permanent Class Committee, and Class Day Committee were announced last night by Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, chairman of the 1938 Nominating Committee, Additional names for these positions may be put up by petition, signed by 25 Seniors, and handed in to Dunster K-22 before 5 o'clock Thursday...
...Besides Benchley, the Nominating Committee consists of J. Sinclair Armstrong, Lyman B. Burbank, Joseph Franklin, Elliot B. Knowlton, George F. Lowman, and Robert T. Whitman...