Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unknown Factor. Mass production will take some of the curse off color TV's high price, but just how much no one knows. While Emerson Radio President Benjamin Abrams confidently expects that color sets will drop to within 25% of black & white in 18 months. Magnavox President Frank Freimann thinks the price will never be comparable...
...painters of the U.S. frontier: George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and some 250 others. He also bought masterpieces by Homer, Whistler and Sargent, and a collection of pre-Columbian gold work. Among his 70,000 books and manuscripts are a copy of the Declaration of Independence signed by Benjamin Franklin, the first letter ever written from the New World to the Old (by Christopher's son Diego Columbus), the original of a letter commissioning Paul Revere as a messenger for the Boston Committee of Safety...
...film has the distinction of being splendidly photographed (by Thomas Stobart and George W. Lowe of the expedition) in conditions where photography is about as easy as gathering edelweiss in an avalanche. It has also been intelligently edited, with a generally well-imagined musical score by British Composer Arthur Benjamin and a simple, sufficient narrative commentary written by British Poet Louis MacNeice...
...Kampala and in all Buganda is No. 7. There, in his white palace, ringed with pacing sentries and a ten-foot-high stockade of elephant grass, the Kabaka (King) of Buganda got an urgent message last week. It was an invitation from Uganda's British governor, Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, to His Highness Kabaka Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Mutesa II. It said: Come and talk...
...Benjamin Castleman '27 has been appointed Clinical Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Department of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, it was announced yesterday...