Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dyke Benjamin led off the varsity's triumph with an excellent 4:15.6 win over Army's Dick Healy in the mile. Less than an hour later, he came back to take the two-mile, leaving Cadet Dick Greene far behind and setting a new Harvard and Shea Stadium record of 9:08.5. Benjamin's mark was nearly 13 seconds faster than Pete Reider's former University standard, and it establishes him as perhaps the leading distance runner in this part of the country...
...Dyke Benjamin is ready for an attack on Pete Reider's University two-mile record of 9:21.2. Last month Benjamin turned in a 9:25.4 performance at the Connecticut Relays, and since then he has had his first real workouts since early December. He will be facing Army's Heptagonal champion Dick Greene in what promises to be the most exciting race of the meet...
...Fitzgerald, Fred Howard, and possibly Benjamin will meet Cadets Ted Benz, the Heps winner, and Dick Healy in the mile, a key event. Fitzgerald outdueled Healy when the Crimson met Army last winter, but since then Benz has come into his own, soundly defeating Fitzgerald in the Heptagonals. Howard has improved, too, and any one of five men could take first place...
...will come to your end either upon the gallows or of a venereal disease," William Gladstone was said to have cried to his great political rival. Retorted Britain's Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli: "I should say, Mr. Gladstone, that depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress...
...Fragonard, described his own beginnings. A child of Provence, Fragonard was raised in the soft sunshine, on vine-covered hills, with the Mediterranean and the mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait is in the Louvre, a second in his native Grasse, and the third (see color page), newly acquired, in San Francisco's Palace...