Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAPERS op BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, VOL. Ill (513 pp.)-Editor, Leonard W. Labaree-Yale University Press...
According to Charles Baudelaire's defi-nition-by-negation of a superior man-"He is not a specialist"-Benjamin Franklin was one of the most superior men who ever lived. He was also, according to Phillips Russell's widely read biography, "the first civilized American." Superior or merely civilized, he certainly spread himself. Almost everyone now knows that he invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, that he-founded the Saturday Evening Post and the Philosophical Society of America, but even the brighter college students may be surprised to learn that he was a glass manufacturer who designed...
Died. William Smith Mason, 94, historian and philanthropist who labored for 35 years to collect Benjamin Franklin's papers, donated the priceless collection to Yale in 1936; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
Another Senior Tutor, Benjamin D. Labaree of Winthrop, claimed that non-Honors students concentrate on "keeping their heads above the water academically" and will not spend six or eight hours a week on non-credit activity...
...Massachusetts, President-elect Kennedy resigned his U.S. Senate seat before the end of the year so that Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who had been defeated last November by Republican John A. Volpe, could appoint a Kennedy pal, Benjamin A. Smith, as Kennedy's interim Senate successor. "By resigning before Jan. 1," wrote Lawrence, "Senator Kennedy prevented the Republican Governor from making the appointment. This kind of political maneuvering is not novel, but it doesn't erase the fact that a successor to Senator Kennedy cannot be voted on now for two years...