Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shone bright on old Kentucky homes, the meadows were in bloom, and the birds were making music all the day. But most Kentuckians could hardly no tice or hear last week above the political din that filled the state. Albert Benjamin Chandler, 57, Kentucky's governor in 1935-39 and U.S. Senator in 1939-45, was noisily on the comeback trail (TIME, April 11). "Happy" Chandler was wowing the voters everywhere with his own special brand of political minstrelsy. His opponent for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Judge Bertram T. Combs, 43, of Prestonsburg, was still campaigning in a sober...
...Benjamin) Brewster Jennings, 57, was elected Socony Mobil Oil Co. chairman, succeeding George V. Holton, 65, who retired. The grandson of John D. Rockefeller partners, Jennings started as a clerk for the old Standard Oil Co. of New York in 1920, worked up to Socony's presidency in 24 years. While remaining as the company's chief executive officer, he was succeeded as president by Albert L. Nickerson, 44, who joined the company as a service-station attendant after graduating from Harvard in 1933, has directed its far-flung foreign trade as a vice president since...
...leading American artists of Revolutionary days, only Charles Willson Peale stayed to witness the stirring events that led to victory. Benjamin West, already an established London painter by 1775, preferred to remain in England. John Trumbull at 19 was an aide-de-camp to Washington and had viewed the battle on Bunker's Hill through field glasses from his post in Roxbury, but he resigned his commission in a huff and later departed for London. Gilbert Stuart, then 19, got away in the spring of 1775 aboard the last ship to escape the embargo in Boston Harbor. John Singleton...
Hats on for the King. A saddlemaker, upholsterer, clockmaker and silversmith before he took up painting, Peale as a young man sailed up and down the seaboard, painting pictures for his fare. When his fellow townsmen at Annapolis offered to underwrite a trip to study at Benjamin West's London studio, young Peale seized the opportunity. Once there, Peale made no attempt to hide his Revolutionary sympathies, ostentatiously refused to lift his hat when the royal carriage passed. But he worked hard. Back home again after two years in London, Peale quickly made a reputation with wealthy Philadelphians...
...final victory brought a flush of belated pride to Peale's expatriate fellow artists. Benjamin West wrote asking for sketches of Continental uniforms. Stuart came home in 1793, to begin making portraits of the aging Washington. Peale himself went on to found the first scientifically arranged natural-history museum in America, was the prime mover in founding the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1805, the oldest U.S. art school still in existence (TIME, Feb. 7). When Peale died in 1827, one of his finest tributes was the memory of an old Continental who said: "He fit and painted...