Word: benediction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Humphrey Bogart, of Benedict Canyon, Calif., and wife Lauren Bacall left home unexpectedly for a day's visit with friends. The Bogart boxers had killed a skunk in the backyard, laid it triumphantly on the front doorstep, and then romped joyously through the house...
Last week everybody on the New Jersey campus, from President Robert C. Clothier to the newest freshman (and including secretaries and janitors), was tackling the first "Book of the Year": Anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. The campus Philosophean Society had picked it on Peterson's say-so: he called it "a noble, beautiful, important book." If they get through the first one, he has some more up his sleeve: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Hamlet, Alice in Wonderland...
Died. Dr. Ruth Fulton Benedict, 61, Columbia professor of anthropology; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. A poetess who first took up anthropology as a hobby, Dr. Benedict wrote her monumental Patterns of Culture to document her theory that whole societies behave like human personalities. When she co-authored The Races of Mankind in 1943 to refute the Nazi master-race doctrine, a House committee found her statements on racial equality "controversial," banned the book from Army distribution...
Earlier in the year, when the birds were nesting, the monks discovered a nest of swallows above the altar in the newly patched crypt of Saint Benedict. Some of them proposed to tear it down. But Dom Oderisco Graziosi good-humoredly intervened. "Let them stay," he urged. "After all, they too are rebuilding...
...Benedict Arnold sent his soldiers to dig iron for cannon in New York's Adirondack Mountains. There was iron there, but in the westward sweep of U.S. industry big steelmen passed the Adirondacks by. The country was too wild, its roads too few and its scant settlements too short of labor, they agreed, to make Adirondack mining...