Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosopher to Fictioneer. Penelope's subsequent running fight with the Church of England (only to be recaptured by her husband in the end) makes up the remainder of Benefit of Clergy, the best of the five short stories in this collection. But Penelope's astonishment at finding her husband a clergyman is as nothing compared to the reader's at finding Philosopher Bertrand Russell a short-story writer. Even Russell himself cannot explain why, in his 80s, he has suddenly turned fictioneer: "For some reason entirely unknown to me I suddenly wished to write the stories...
...Providing two to three years' study at Oxford for students selected by special local committees in the U.S. and the British Commonwealth. In a codicil, Rhodes added a few scholarships for Germans-in the hope that they would benefit from the civilizing influence of Oxford...
...with a glance toward his Midwestern colleagues, that he believes in economy but that some grave mistakes can be made in its name. Said he: "Security is more precious than dollars . . . Let us take the leadership that God has placed in our hands and use it wisely for the benefit of humanity . . . Let us give Dwight Eisenhower a chance to prove his merit...
...fine. As a result of the News series, a bill before the state legislature to tighten up housing laws now seemed certain to pass. Said one of the 250 letters of praise the paper received from its readers: "When the power of the press is used to benefit humanity . . . it renews the humble reader's faith in that great freedom...
Citizens' Navy. At Newport, R.I., after a Navy Relief Society benefit "election" on the destroyer Hale, Gunner's Mate Arnold E. Bukovsky, the titlewinner, consoled his commanding officer after the latter ran fourth as "Grouchiest Man Aboard Ship...