Word: benjamin
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...onetime West Coast gang leader; of complications of stomach cancer; in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn-born boxer who was running his own mob in Cleveland at 19, Cohen went on to work in a Chicago gambling casino owned by the Capone syndicate, then turned to bookmaking in California. After Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was shot in 1947, Cohen became the high-living kingpin of Los Angeles gangdom. He was sentenced to prison twice, both times on charges of income tax evasion. Cohen was released in 1972, partially paralyzed as the result of being hit over the head with a piece...
...condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century, there were only two drugs known to be specific: cinchona bark for malaria, and mercury as an antisyphilitic agent. Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia (one of four physicians to sign the Declaration of Independence) used bloodletting so extensively that even his colleagues marveled at the survival of his patients. Thomas Jefferson said in 1807, "The patient ... sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine...
...Benjamin Blyth Limner BEGS to inform the Public that he has opened a House near the City Coffee-House, for the performance of Limning in Oil, Crayons and miniature...
Whether Wilkins retires at year's end or next July, the search for his successor is still on. Among the leading candidates: Memphis Lawyer Benjamin Hooks, 51, the only black member of the Federal Communications Commission; Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, 36; N.A.A.C.P. Lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, 65, sometimes described as "the 101st Senator"; N.A.A.C.P. Official Gloster Current, 63, who now handles many of the organization's administrative details; and Gustav Heningburg, 46, director of the Newark Urban Coalition...
YUKIKO IRWIN, who attended both Tokyo Women's Christian College and Indiana University, is descended from Benjamin Franklin. She lives in Manhattan, where she is an expert in shiatzu, a finger-pressure therapy similar to Chinese acupuncture. Her grandfather, a Philadelphia trader, went to Japan in 1866 and wed a local woman in the first legally sanctioned marriage of an American and a Japanese. Her father also married a Japanese...