Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they...
...disease is called myositis ossificans progressiva. Extremely rare in adults, it is almost unheard of in children. All physicians know is that some disturbance of Benjamin Hcndrick's metabolism has let increased amounts of calcium seep into his muscles and bones. Some think the disturbance may be in the parathyroid glands, which regulate the body's use of calcium and phosphorous. The disease, which produces circus sideshows' "stone men," is usually not fatal to adults, sometimes causing only a local ossification. Some physicians think there is a long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs...
Last week small Benjamin Hendrick, eating well and feeling no pain, was puzzled by the number of strangers who came to his ward. "Why are all those people looking at me?" he asked his nurse. "Is it because some day I'm going to be an aviator...
...citizen during the War. There as Kuhn, Loeb's great "personality" he chatted with railroad tycoons, painters, writers, singers-all wanting help. And there last week, in the private dining room on the fourth floor, Death came to Otto Kahn. He was sitting over his coffee with Partner Benjamin Buttenwieser. Suddenly he slumped forward. His cup rattled to the floor. Before a doctor could reach him the 67-year-old banker was dead of cardiac thrombosis...
...adviser. Jerome Jones Hanauer, Jacob Schiff's trusted "inside man," retired last year. Sir William Wiseman is a Briton who has been a partner only five years. Today much of the work is done by Elisha Walker, onetime ally of Amadeo Peter Giannini, and by able Benjamin Buttenwieser, who, as manager of the firm's syndicate department, is considered one of the most brilliant young men in Wall Street...