Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anxious to settle down at his stately home in Leesburg, Va., where he could be with his wife Katherine (his first wife, whom he married in 1902, died of heart disease in 1927), and where he could work in his vegetable garden, read his favorite books-about Stonewall Jackson, Benjamin Franklin and Robert E. Lee. "We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness," said he in his valedictory. "This course has failed us utterly...
...piano literature for one hand can pretty well be numbered on the fingers of two. Scriabin, Brahms. Ravel and Strauss all took a shot at it, along with such moderns as Benjamin Britten and Leos Janacek.* The rest of the left-hand repertory is pretty much what the trade calls "knitting music." But a platoon of composers in Holland last week was hard at work on some new and surprisingly engaging left-hand pieces to be played by a recent recruit to the field: 45-year-old Dutch Pianist Cor de Groot...
Fitzgerald's leg condition had made it seem unlikely that he would do well today; a second place under these condition gives promise of a tough Crimson team later in the season. The unexpectedly poor eleventh showing of Jack Benjamin may have been due to the same cold that bothered him during this week's practice sessions. Several other Crimson standbys turned in unusually slow times...
...race was a discouraging study in might-have-beens for the Crimson harriers, whose depth potential showed through even in defeat. Mark Mullin placed fourth just behind Nick Jennison of Dartmouth, with the next Harvard runners, Perry, Hildreth, Baldwin, Slansky, and Benjamin finishing in seventh to eleventh positions. Hallagan and Tompkins of Dartmouth provided the Green with its margin of victory by running fifth and sixth...
...Clinton, Iowa 82 Mussman, John '62 19 6:1 183 LaGrange, Ill. 81 *Persels, Conrad '61 20 6.0 180 Osceola, Iowa TACKLES 88 Kier, Brock '62 19 6:1 200 El Paso, Tex. 79 *Bowlby, Samuel '60 21 6:3 204 Davenport, Iowa 77 Urban, Benjamin '62 18 6:0 246 Collinsville, Ill. 75 Zigelis, Andrew '62 18 6:2 210 N. Andover, Mass. 74 *Horschman, Lowell '60 21 6:1 219 Nixon, N. J. 73 Kola, Arthur '61 20 6:2 192 New Brunswick, N. J. 72 Hofmann, Richard '60 19 6:2 206 Jenkintown, Pa. 71 Erwin, Peter...