Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only number one player Corky Graham looked sharp for the Midshipmen; he tripped Frank Ripley, 6-4, 6-3, and then teamed with John Owens to beat Ripley and Bob Inman, 6-4, 6-2, at first doubles. But Dave Benjamin, Clive Kileff, Chum Steele, and Dean Peckham won straight-set singles matches, and the teams of Steele-Peckham and Benjamin-Kileff won the last two doubles to clinch the match...
...sophomores, Clive Kileff and David Benjamin, plus captain Sandy Walker and Bob Inman, round out a squad that might easily shut out the Midshipmen...
Cleveland School Superintendent William Levenson recently resigned in anger after the school-board president took a policy squabble to the newspapers. Chicago's strong-minded Benjamin Willis quit when the city board insisted on a broader, faster student-transfer plan than he wanted, returned to the job only after he got his own way. For months, New York City's able Calvin Gross has been forced to conduct a running battle with his board...
...literary underworld abounds with stories about great writers who were also great pornographers. Mark Twain amused himself and friends with outhouse humor; so did Benjamin Franklin. Passages of Swift are brutally obscene. Byron and Swinburne both dipped their pens in blue ink, while even Thackeray could line out a lickerish limerick. Perhaps the most famous respectable smutmaster is Robert Burns, whose collection of bawdy Scottish verse has been circulating in more or less clandestine versions for more than 150 years. The collection as now published is as close to the original as scholarship is likely to achieve, bar ring...
Lynch put Princeton ahead with a 6-2, 9-7 triumph over Inman at number five; the Tigers stretched it to 4-2 despite Steele's win when Keith Jennings outlasted Benjamin in a backcourt duel, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, and Magill turned back a determined Kileff...