Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "since Princeton has its Jefferson, why shouldn't Yale have its Franklin." President Griswold of Yale announced that, in association with the American Philosophical Society, Yale would undertake one of the greatest historical literary ventures of the century--it would collect and edit all the known papers of Benjamin Franklin...
...keep her alive in a funny little way." Although Elsa claims that the countess "never confided in her women friends." friend Maxwell recalled a heap of confidential items on Dorothy's "life and loves." Wrote Elsa: "The two great loves of her life were Gary Cooper and . . . Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel of Murder, Inc. . . . who was liquidated in 1947 by ... his organization." When Gary first drawled howdy over a phone to the countess in Rome, he sounded "awfully nice." and she told him: "Go straight to the Villa Madama, my house [where Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford later broke...
...lecture hall of the American Philosophical Society, next door to Philadelphia's Independence Hall, a small group of notables gathered last week for a special ceremony. Behind them hung the portrait of the society's founder, Benjamin Franklin, and it was with the memory and works of Franklin that the notables were concerned. Presidents A. Whitney Griswold of Yale and Owen J. Roberts of the American Philosophical Society had come to announce that their two institutions were about to collaborate on one of the major literary ventures of the century - the publication of all the known Franklin papers...
...would not be their own institutions alone that would benefit from their alliance. "There could be no more appropriate time than this," said Roberts, "to bring this material to the attention of the American people." Added Griswold: "Few Americans have as much to teach us about ourselves today as Benjamin Franklin...
...moved to London, then to Toronto, and died, with his citizenship rights unrestored, in his old Kentucky home. CJ Levi P. Morton (1889-93), a Vermont-born New York banker who was one of the richest men of his day, picked the wrong term to be Vice President (with Benjamin Harrison). He turned down a chance at the Republican nomination in 1880 (he might have succeeded Garfield), and another chance in 1896 (he might have succeeded McKinley). Morton was an efficient fund-raiser for his party, entertained lavishly at his town and country houses, kept a herd of purebred cattle...