Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others; in Denver, Colo. The agency: a committee headed by Right Reverend Hugh L. McMenamin, rector of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Reason: pictures and advertisements "suggestive of sex." Authority: Colorado law forbids distribution of obscene literature, provides for mandatory fines and jail sentences for violators. Fortnight ago. Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton of Denver appointed the McMenamin committee, instructed his police to enforce any bans it might make. If magazine distributors object to police action, they can sue the police in court...
...Benjamin F. Dillingham '39 will ply the difficult part of Neptune and will be surrounded by mermaids, Marvin Scaife '39 will sing, Augustus Soule '40 and Peter M. Pratt '40 will dance, while Laurence S. Johnson '39 and Peter Thompson '40 will be respectively the front and back legs of an elephant which will dance Mendelssohn's Spring Song...
Would Benny Goodman qualify for an association of those whose given name is "Benny" (not short for Benjamin...
...Tuskegee Institute. When the Southern States Art League, proud nurse of regional consciousness among artists from New Orleans to Charleston, held its 18th annual exhibition last month in Montgomery, Artist Bairnsfather sent in his portrait. What surprised him, as a Southerner, was that it got the Blanche S. Benjamin prize of $250 for "the loveliest painting of a Southern subject." Jury's reason: ''Spiritual rather than physical loveliness" inspired this breach with a tradition of landscape prize winners...
...Crow's Confucius may sometimes seem confusing. But they will have to admit that he succeeds in peeling off a lot of the 24-century coating of official lacquer. In fact, as Author Crow portrays him, the huge, ugly wise man emerges with a look as human as Benjamin Franklin...