Word: benjamin
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Hems Heavenward. Fragonard, who flippantly signed his works "Frago," was an exemplar of the rococo age. Born in 1732, he studied under François Boucher. He was befriended by the American minister in Paris, Benjamin Franklin, and by Madame du Barry, who commissioned him to do the series called the Progress of Love that is now in Manhattan's Frick Collection. One of his best-known works shows a girl on a swing, her hems heavenward, being pushed while her lover looks...
Agent Provocateur. The man who broke the Molly Maguires was Franklin Benjamin Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., whose ancestors had come from Ireland's Protestant north; and he used another Irishman to penetrate the Mollies. His choice for the job was James McParlan, a gifted, gabby little Pinkerton detective who was as ready with his fists as with his wits...
...Died. Benjamin Davis, 60, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, racial rabble-rouser among his fellow Negroes, and convicted seditionist (four years, 1951-55, in the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind.); after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...Named for French Neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne, who first described the muscular disorders...
Vellucci indicated that he will confer with Dr. Benjamin Sachs of the Cambridge Health Department, with the State Health Dept., and with the MDC "with a view in mind to finding a solution to this dangerous, unhealthy problem...