Word: benjamin
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Issued in mid-August by Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D-N.Y.) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the analysis characterizes the School of Public Health's Nutrition Department as "riddled with corporate influence," noting that its benefactors include the Kellogg Co., Gerber Products, Coca-Cola, Oscar Mayer & Co., and the Amstar Corp...
...EDUCATION. It is reported that penicillin was invented by a laundryman in a dyer's shop. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, though he began as a newspaper boy. What learning did Jesus have? . . . It is always those with less learning who overthrow those with more learning...
...Died. Benjamin M. McKelway, 80, editor of the Washington Star (1946-63); of kidney failure; in Washington, D.C. A soft-spoken North Carolinian, McKelway joined the Star as a reporter in 1921. As its editor he was a champion of civil rights, including the right of District of Columbia residents to vote. In 1957 he became the first non-publisher to be elected president of the Associated Press...
...disappointed when he found it was not about cowboys and Indians, but he stuck with it nonetheless. He has read the book two or three times and counts it as one of his favorites. He was deeply moved by Sandburg's volumes on Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography...
Making It. Benjamin West (1738-1820) was the first to go. He went to Italy and then to London, where he became court painter to George III. That a colonial could bring off such a feat was regarded as singular. It turned him into a precocious father figure for later Yankee expatriates, notably Copley and Stuart. Here was their lesson in making it: the teen-age limner who, thanks to Rome and practical ambition, rose to become the second president of the Royal Academy. In fact, West was by temperament an ideal official artist: studious, methodical, competent, a bovine draftsman...