Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles that still seem good, Benjamin Bradlee's essay "That Special Grace" has been published by itself as a book. It is perhaps the best of several reminiscences by men who knew Kennedy both as reporters and as friends. Of the "straight reporting" written just after the assassination, the two pieces by Mary McGrory of the Washington Star seem much the best in the Salinger-Vanocur collection...
...been collected, according to Benjamin F. Stapleton III '65, chairman of the drive. The evening's returns from several of the Houses were not yet available...
...from its list of recommended charities. For years the Combined Charities have supported the AFSC. The latter has scarcely changed over the years. What could have been the new factor that made the AFSC suddenly "controversial" because of its "political overtones?" I could scarely take seriously the charge of Benjamin F. Stapleton that the AFSC was embarked on a program of "propagandizing for world peace." It has been encouraging discussion of problems affecting peace for forty-five years. This is nothing new--though is new and disheartening to learn that Harvard students believe that such discussions are "controversial," have "political...
Nevertheless the AFSC has come to be rather widely accepted, as one of the charities to whom people give money because it is not controversial. And for such an organization not to be controversial is death to its spirit. Benjamin F. Stapleton and his committee reassure me: the American Friends Service Committee has not been conventional...
...Benjamin F. Stapleton III '65, chairman of the drive, predicted yesterday that the total amount collected this year would be about the same as last year. The 1963 drive fell about $2500 short of its $30,000 goal, he said...