Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach McCurdy will stick with the usual lineup of Pete Reider, Dave Norris, captain Dave McLean, Jim Schlaeppi, Dick Wharton, Ralph Perry, John Read, Thompson, Bob Holmes, Bill Morris, Larry Lavers, and Dyke Benjamin...
Though he thus barred himself from the fighting, Trumbull dreamed of recording it for posterity. In London he made a pilgrimage to the studio of compatriot Painter Benjamin West, who urged that Trumbull stick to small pictures that his one eye could compass. This led Trumbull to compress heroic compositions into canvases more concentrated and powerful than West's own. Returning after the Revolution, he traveled from New Hampshire to South Carolina to portray the VIPs of a Very Important Period, and to sketch the quieted battlefields...
...later version.) In only 30 inches of width, Yale's picture contains 48 portrait figures, all grouped naturally and convincingly in a manner suited to the solemn occasion. Among them, at the table before John Hancock, stand John Adams, Roger Sherman. Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The painting is a set piece, but Trumbull succeeded in conveying something of its suppressed excitement in the zigzag arrangement of heads and the winglike banners at the back...
Some 300 former athletic stars and their guests jammed the Club to hear eulogies given to the following "greats": Former coach Percy D. Haughton '99, Charles D. Daley '01, Hamilton Fish '10, Huntington D. Hardwick '15, Stanley B. Pennock '15, Edward W. Mahan '16, and Benjamin H. Ticknor...
...slight, white-bearded yachtsman, water-colorist and world-renowned architectural historian, who taught for 38 years (1916-54) at Columbia University, wrote prolifically, edited (1952) the scholarly, encyclopedic Forms and Functions of Twen tieth-Century Architecture, capped his career by winning a Pulitzer Prize (1956) for his biography of Benjamin Latrobe, the U.S.'s first professional architect; of a heart attack; in Beaufort, S.C. Architect Hamlin delivered Wrighteous judgments, called Los Angeles ("very bad Spanish architecture") the ugliest U.S. city, summed up New York: "One vast slum with oases ... for the wealthy...