Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong-and what's right-with the U.S.'s foreign-aid program? To get a cold-eyed answer to this $4.7 billion question that is already vexing Congress, President Eisenhower last September named seven eminent men as "Citizen Advisers on the Mutual Security Program." With Benjamin F. Fairless, ex-chairman...
Died. The Most Rev. Jules Benjamin Jeanmard, 77, first Louisianian to become a Roman Catholic bishop (1918). who took a solid pro-integration stand in November 1955 by excommunicating two women in his Lafayette. La. diocese for assaulting a woman teacher of an integrated catechism class, lifted the ban a week later when they apologized; after making a final request that his body lie in state for one day at a Lafayette Negro church; in Lake Charles...
...Good Friend. Ferdinand never gave up. In 1955, he became a Dr. Benjamin Jones (who really was president of Northeast Mississippi Junior College), got himself a job as lieutenant of the guard in Texas' Huntsville Penitentiary. There, a prisoner recognized Ferdinand as the subject of a 1952 LIFE article on "The Master Impostor," but the agile fraud made a quick getaway...
...nearly a century since man was urged to think of himself as the relative of apes rather than of angels; if there were a question in the matter, said Benjamin Disraeli, he was "on the side of the angels." British Novelist-Humorist John Collier is sardonically on the side of the apes...
...Harvard Liberal Union has elected Harold J. Goldfarb '57, of Dunster House and Brookline, Mass., as president for the spring semester. Other officers are: vice president, Herbert E. Milstein '58, of Leverett House and Boston; political action chairman, Benjamin I. Cohen '58, of Dunster House and Schenectady, N.Y.; treasurer, Paul W. Mosher '58, of Dunster House and Albany; secretary, Roger C. Algase '59, of Dunster House and New York City; Harvard affairs chairman, Richard H. Seder '60, of Thayer and Worcester, Mass.; membership chairman, Ralph D. Goldenberg '60, of Thayer and Somerville, Mass.; public relations director, Morris M. Goldings...