Word: benjamin
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...Auditorium Theater opened in 1889, Pullmans, Palmers and Fields descended on the great granite edifice on Michigan Avenue in a stream of horse-drawn carriages. Inside, men stood and cheered as Adelina Patti sang Home Sweet Home, followed up with the Swiss Echo Song as an encore. President Benjamin Harrison, seated in a special box at the side of the stage, leaned toward Vice President Levi Morton and murmured, "New York surrenders, eh?" So it seemed that night in the magnificent hall, proudly proclaimed on the program to be "the Parnassus of modern civilization...
...these reasons the campaign of white lawyer, Benjamin E. Smith, for the State House of Representatives in last Saturday's Democartic primary was both important and extraordinary. Smith, a jolly, red-faced Louisianian of many generations, counts himself among those rare creatures--a Southern liberal, and is all the rarer for his decision to go into politics...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Benjamin Britten and His Aldeburgh Festival" recounts the contributions of one of the world's foremost composers to the music festival in Aldeburgh, England. With tapes of performances this past summer by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the Vienna Boys Choir, Tenor Peter Pears and Guitarist Julian Bream...
...Phoenix, despite a plea of insanity, Accused Mass Murderer Robert Benjamin Smith, 19, was found guilty and now faces the gas chamber. Smith is the high school student who shot to death four women and a child in a Mesa, Ariz., beauty parlor, after getting them to lie down, heads to the center, like spokes of a wheel (TIME, Nov. 18). When police arrived only moments after the killings, Smith announced laconically: "I wanted to get known, just wanted to get myself a name." Defense psychiatrists testified that Smith could not have known right from wrong. "For him," said...
This Sunday's subject will be mathematician-astronomer-inventor Benjamin Banneker, who also worked on the layout of our nation's capital and proposed the establishment of a Department of Peace under a Secretary of Peace (we had a Secretary of War until...