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Last week a tall, white-bearded old gentleman named Laurence Vincent Benet returned to make his home in the U. S. after 51 years in France. Born to a Civil War brigadier on the military reservation at West Point 73 years ago, he went to Paris in 1885 as a penniless young engi eer fresh from Yale. His job was with Hotchkiss & Cie., French armament concern founded by a Connecticut Yankee who had sold arms to the Union until 1865, moved to France before the Franco-Prussian War. Engineer Benet has spent most of his life perfecting the Hotchkiss machine...
...Benet has been Hotchkiss' managing director for years, wears the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, is a Commander of the Crown of Rumania and a Commander of the Military Order of Christ (Portu al). He was the grand old man of the American Colony in Paris and Mrs. Benet's salons were the envy of all aspiring...
expatriates. During the War, Mr. Benet helped found the American Ambulance Service. Just before the Benets closed their apartment on the Avenue de Camoens, packed up their collection of art and pensioned their cook and chauffeur, Parisians joined the American Colony in giving the departing couple a heartfelt farewell...
...Guggenheimer is not formally required to do anything for his money. Guggenheim money, however, has helped many a first-rate artist produce many a first-rate work. Stephen Vincent Benet wrote John Brown's Body on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927. Louis Adamic wrote Native's Return on another in 1932. Criticized for giving assistance to big names, the Foundation has concentrated lately on little ones, although few Fellowships have gone to people without a respectable body of work behind them. This year's literary crop is notable for its youth (average age: 35) and radicalism...
...Mayer Cohen '36, of Brooklyn, New York, took second with selections from "John Brown's Body" by Stephen Vincent Benet, while David Park McAllester '38, of Everett, placed third, giving Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo...