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...Benedict (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new series about a trial lawyer, played by Edmond O'Brien...
...Boston last week, silver-haired, short-tempered Patrick Benedict McGinnis, 58, bowed out as head of a Class I U.S. railroad for the fourth time in ten years. But in surrendering his job as chief executive of the 127-year-old Boston & Maine, the hotspur of U.S. railroading at least set a refreshing precedent. On previous occasions-aboard the Norfolk Southern, the Central of Georgia and the New Haven-McGinnis was tossed out by angry stockholders. At the B. & M. he decided to move up to chairman on his own hook...
...church has already canonized on Negro, St. Benedict the Moor, a 16th century Franciscan whose parents were slaves from Africa; he was declared a saint...
...vehicle for the debacle was a playlet called Areopagitica or Escape Fromm Freedom, written eleven years ago by John A. Benedict '54 and Kenneth J. Reckford '54, two veterans of Professor Samuel Beer's annual odyssey. As Professor Beer related to the audience Saturday night, the play, performed only once before, was uncovered after an exhaustive and painstaking search--in his desk--by Thomas Reckford '64, younger brother of the co-author. Even not knowing the dangers involved in exploring the wilds of Professor Beer's desk, I would say the expedition was well worth...
...problem was that many of the characters are no longer studied in the course, and several references to Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead passed unnoticed. But it was still a lot of fun, even if I won't be able to take another Soc Sci 2 paper seriously...