Word: benjamin
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Died. Russell Benjamin Harrison, 82, only son of 23rd President Benjamin Harrison and great-grandson of 9th President William Henry Harrison; in Indianapolis. He was successively an engineer, U. S. Assay Office superintendent, cattle rancher, journalist (Judge), lawyer and Mexican consul at Indianapolis...
PAUL LAWRENCE DUNBAR-Benjamin Brawley-University of North Carolina Press ($1). Lifeless biography of the poet who rose from a Dayton, Ohio elevator operator to a position as the most celebrated of Negro writers, died...
...detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business as exciting as a bugle call, magnificently sombre as the roll of muffled drums. Good shots: Benjamin Franklin sitting down at Lloyd's with Boswell and Sam Johnson; Lloyd's bell, rung twice for good news, once for bad, tolling out the tragedy of the Azores...
Last month they played in Greenville, N. C. From Greenville the bivalent Godinos motored to Manhattan where they rented an apartment in the theatrical district off Broadway. Lucio had caught a nasty cold during the motor trip. Soon he called in Dr. Benjamin Fabricant, a young physician four years out of New York University Medical School who had an office in the Godinos' apartment building. When the cold proved to be pneumonia, Dr. Fabricant sent sick Lucio and healthy Simplicio to York Hospital, a small private institution. The Press discovered the case, piled into the hospital, photographed the strange...
...most colleges' Big Football Game, the week of the National Automobile Show and the last week of woodcock shooting in New England-last week-was American Education Week. For the benefit of 25,000 parent-teacher groups who would inspect their public schools locally during the week, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Langworthy of The National Congress of Parents & Teachers, wrote an instructive message...