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...Revolution came on, the house became a center for it briefly. In one of its rooms the Committee on Safety planned the army the Congress had authorized, while in another the high command--at least until Washington arrived--settled its immediate strategy. Captain Benedict Arnold appeared with a Connecticut company to broach a plan for taking Ticonderoga. General Artemas Ward made the house his headquarters, planning the defense of Bunker Hill during his stay, and General Warren, who conducted it, slept there on the eve of battle...
...daily grind. Now all is changed. For months, in the newspapers and at hearings in New York City, Boston and Stamford. Conn., the commuters have complained bitterly about sloppy service, endless delays, dangerous cutbacks in maintenance. All of the invective has been directed at one man, Patrick Benedict McGinnis, 51, the colorful, terrible-tempered president of the New Haven. Stockholders' Darling. Although a good many of the complaints proved on investigation to be justified (in 1955, for example, the New Haven curtailed maintenance by some $3,000,000), the main trouble seemed to be Pat McGinnis himself...
...submit that such a policy-making body scarcely represents a proper democratic cross-section of our community. Nor can it be said to offer the greatest benefit to all the people of the City of Cambridge. Benedict Fitzgerald '08 (independent Candidate for Cambridge City Council...
...BRAD BENEDICT...
Mood Indigo. In Sydney, Australia, a jury awarded Musician Frederick Benedict Mclntosh $22,500 damages after he complained that he had given up his radio work, following an auto accident, because he had lost his "cheerfulness...