Word: benjamin
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LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Benjamin Butler-"The Beast"-was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. A famed criminal lawyer in private life, he earned Southerners' undying hatred as the harsh but generally fair governor of occupied New Orleans, later became an impassioned champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. Historian West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted Beast...
...Walker Lewis '67, of Eliot House and New York City, was named chairman of the 1965-66 Combined Charities Drive Monday night. His nomination by last fall's chairman. Benjamin F. Stapleton III '65, was confirmed...
Harvard Yearbook Publications, Inc., has announced the election of the following officers: Benjamin S. Dunham '66, president; David M. Levy '67, managing editor; Joseph P. Blanchard '67, business manager; J.A. Dorzofsky '67, production chairman; Mark J. Andrews '66, editorial chairman; Martha C. Fransson '66, clerk; Irar Viche-Naess III '67, chairman of the photographic board...
...route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show, if little else, attracted William Saroyan, who instantly commissioned Smith, then 23, to design his Beautiful People for Broadway...
...looked like Ben Turpin in uniform: a massive head, topping out at 5 ft. 4 in., rimmed with wild auburn hair and set with droop-lidded eyes that flashed balefully in opposite directions. He was called "the Beast," and "Old Cockeye"-though rarely to his face. For Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the Civil War's toughest and most hated Northern generals...