Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hear This. In Chicago, Mrs. Eleanore Micele, 45, won a divorce on the ground of cruelty after explaining to the judge that she and husband Benjamin Micele, 57, had not spoken for eight years, had communicated only through notes pinned on the kitchen bulletin board...
...Just Plain Silly." Next day, at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Johnstown, Pa., quite another view of automation was advanced by U.S. Steel's Chairman Benjamin Fairless. Said he: "Automation has become a menacing word-a kind of modern bogeyman with which to frighten our people." Fairless went on to show why he thought the fears "just plain silly." Was not the telephone industry the prime example of automation, with its increased use of dial phones? Yet between 1940 and 1950, said Fairless, the number of telephone operators in the U.S. increased...
...remainder of the program featured works for vocal ensemble, in which the three singers were joined by Barbara Benjamin, soprano. (The absence of a bass singer is explained by the fact that real bass parts do not occur before the end of the 15th century.) Among these songs was Henry VIII's O My Herte, which showed that the King was a better master of vocal than of marital harmony...
...leading expert in the foreign relations of Russia and China, Benjamin I. Schwarts, assistant professor of History, and a member of the Russian Research Center, said it is much too early to know whether or not there will be any significant change in Russia's relations toward China. But, as he pointed out, during the short period of time when Malenkov was Prime Minister, there was a trend to ease the difference of the two countries, and there is no present reason for the trend to halt...
...exhibit came close to being a Who's Who of American painting, sweeping from Charles Willson Peale, the academy's founder, and Benjamin West (first honorary member) to the Maine water-colors of the late (1953) John Marin. Included were the works of such figures as George Caleb Bingham, Mary Cassatt (only U.S. painter of the French impressionist movement), the meticulous realist William Harnett, and five artists of the famed "Ashcan School" of realism-Robert Henri, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and William Glackens. Before the exhibition was under way, the U.S. Information Agency began making plans...