Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean of Admissions and Scholarships also said yesterday he is unaware of any plan to increase radically the size of the next Freshman class. "We are working on the assumption that there will be no increase in size," Dean Bender asserted. However, he emphasized that Dean Bundy, not his Committee, is "the final authority on the matter...
...Bender suggested that if there is to be any significant rise in the number of Freshmen admitted, "the Faculty, even though it is not legally responsible, should be consulted. There is strong feeling in the Faculty on this question of expansion." He noted that, if the present size is retained, the "nasty problem of forced commuters will be solved...
...weeks ago, facts about the techniques and rewards of Bender's investigation started leaking out. For his efforts, Bender collected $250 a day from Hoffa & Co.-a total of $19,250 from August to December-plus an additional $9,000 for expenses, including rent on Bender's regular Washington office. "I have never worked harder in my life," protested Bender, but it seemed that the only hard work involved was typing copies of letters, and a secretary did that...
Written Denial. Last week, his investigation exposed as a sad and cynical farce, Bender was threatening to sue any publication that reprinted Washington Post and Times Herald Cartoonist Herblock's devastating version of the Bender investigation (see cut). But when a newsman asked to see some of the evidence that Bender claimed to have in his files, Bender could produce nothing more convincing than a letter he had sent to Charles C. Curran, secretary-treasurer of a bakery drivers' (Teamsters) local in Tacoma, Wash. "We would like to know," said Bender's letter, "if there have been...
Club members everywhere were aghast last week when one Jack Bender of Chicago, practicing with real bullets in his Buntline Special model, accidentally shot and killed his 14-month-old son (whom he had named Wyatt Earp). They quickly pointed out that he was not affiliated with any club. Cried Dillon: "Anyone using live ammunition is like a drunken driver. He is simply asking for trouble...