Word: benjamin
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What happened to the lost Ten Tribes of Israel? In the reign of Solomon's son Rehoboam, the nation of Israel divided; ten tribes broke away under the leadership of Jeroboam,* and two (Juda and Benjamin) remained to provide the subsequent history of the Jews. But the fate of the Ten Tribes is one of the persistent mysteries of history and a tempting lure for eager souls always waiting to rush into any vacuum of knowledge, armed with a ready-made theory and infinite capacity for inductive reasoning. In the past 100-odd years, a cult called British Israel...
Died. Mary Stollard-Purnell, 91, widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the bewhiskered, ball-playing House of David, whose followers claimed to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel;† near Shiloh, the religious cult's realm, in Benton Harbor, Mich. After "King" Benjamin died in 1927, while appealing his famed conviction on morals charges, the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary got half of its several-hundred-thousand-dollar property, gathered 200 loyal followers and established a new colony, where she awaited the millennium by supervising the colony's dairy farms...
...William Walton stands second in England's current trinity of famous composers. Less prolific than either 80-year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams or 39-year-old Benjamin Britten, he has turned out some pieces (e.g., his Symphony and Viola Concerto) that are considered better than any of their more celebrated works. In the U.S. he is known for Façade, an impudent accompaniment for Edith Sitwell's eccentric verses; Belshazzar's Feast, a big dramatic choral work; and Orb and Sceptre, a grandiose march commissioned for the coronation. Visiting the U.S. with his Argentine born wife...
...virtually predestined to take a hand in the management of U.S. foreign affairs. His father, a Presbyterian minister in Watertown, N.Y., was a nephew of John Welsh, envoy to Britain during the administration of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Maternal grandfather John Watson Foster had been Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison and uncle Robert Lansing was to become Secretary of State under Wilson. At the age of eight, Allen, already deep in the problems of international relations, turned out a 31-page history of the Boer War, roundly criticizing the British. Fond relatives arranged to have the booklet published...
...Ousted in East Germany: Justice Minister Max Fechner. His replacement: a woman, swarthy Hilde Benjamin, 51, popularly known as the "Red Guillotine," a jurist with a reputation for dealing mercilessly with offenses against the Communist regime...