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Word: benedict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benedict XV's Special Prayer for Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace & the Papacy | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...Communist campaign progressed nicely until last week, when the B.O.M. Club suddenly gave the New York World-Telegram the club's-eye view of the gang-up. The club revealed, for instance, that its waggish editorial member, Christopher Morley, had sent a telegram to Jane Benedict, president of the protesting Book and Magazine Union. Said Mr. Morley: "Assume principal objection is to chapter where Commissar Dlugash, Georgian renegade, makes his burlesque of Stalin." Miss Benedict wired back: "Other passages equally objectionable as one you mention." The curious thing was that The Fifth Seal contained no such episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book of the Month | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Herman Mankiewicz is a moonfaced, top-flight Hollywood film writer. One night he was driving alone on Benedict Canyon Road in swank Beverly Hills. His car collided head-on with another driven by Leonora Gershwin, wife of Lyricist Ira Gershwin. Mrs. Gershwin and two women with her were hurt slightly. Scenarist Mankiewicz, unhurt, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, was later released on $500 bond pending a hearing. As news the accident was worth brief mention at most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coverage and Conjecture | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...cascade of type. Second day after the accident the story rated nearly 50 inches, with pictures, on the Examiner's page 3. Next day it moved to the top of page 1 and had a long runover with which there were more pictures, including a photograph of Benedict Canyon Road on which an artist had drawn dotted lines and arrows. Total Examiner coverage in nine days: 253 inches, 15 pictures. The Herald-Express gave the story the same sort of treatment: 205 inches, nine pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Coverage and Conjecture | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...Among his students: Margaret Mead (And Keep Your Powder Dry, TIME, Nov. 30), Colum bia's Ruth Benedict, Yale's Edward Sapir, Northwestern's Melville Jean Herskovits, the late Elsie Clews Parsons, University of Cali fornia's Alfred L. Kroeber, Harvard's Alfred Marston Tozzer, University of New Mexico's Leslie Spier, University of Pennsylvania's John Alden Mason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For the Human Race | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

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