Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, in 1902, was a dual motion, aimed at the two Democratic Senators from South Carolina, Benjamin R. Tillman and John L. McLaurin. "Pitchfork Ben"* Tillman, an ill-mannered, unprincipled demagogue, a master of the unfounded accusation (in a sense, the McCarthy of his day), started a fist fight with McLaurin on the Senate floor. Fellow Senators pulled them apart, later voted to censure both. Tillman survived the dishonor, was later re-elected to the Senate twice, and died in office. McLaurin served out his term, but did not seek reelection. The bad blood between the two men was caused...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, discussed by University of Michigan Professor Verner Crane, TIME'S Robert Manning...
Married. Ben (for Benjamin) Grauer, 46, former child movie star and longtime NBC announcer reputed to be the "most often heard man in history," currently M.C. of NBC radio's Conversation (and on call for such special events as conventions, elections, sportscasts), and Melanie Kahane, thirtyish, New York interior decorator; he for the first time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...Annapolis saddlemaker. Said he later: "[I] would much rather practice the use of my tools than ride in a coach drawn by six horses." At 25, having practiced saddlemaking, watch repairing and portrait painting with some success, he set sail to learn more about art from Benjamin West in London...
Popeye. In Salem, Mass., suing Benjamin Pope Marion for divorce, Nancy Rice Marion, 29, testified that he put her over his knee, spanked her, poured a bottle of beer over her head to "cool her off" because the spinach she served him for dinner had not been chopped...