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Word: benjamins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likes his Bartók as well as his Bach, doesn't let the famous orchestra show its years in its programming. The Concertgebouw gives contemporary Dutch and U.S. composers frequent hearings; last month, it brought out the first recording of a concert suite from Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Superb Sexagenarian | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Mendong Gomba. Typical of Mencken's exhaustive coverage is his account of the U.S. Board on Geographical Names. Organized in the Administration of Benjamin Harrison, it was abolished in 1934 and its functions transferred to the Department of the Interior. "For some time it seems to have escaped the notice of the idealists then fashioning a new world, and so late as 1935 its staff was confined to an executive secretary, an assistant and a clerk. But then its potentialities were grasped by the forward-looking Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Harold L. Ickes, and after Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...wasn't age: Herbert Orrin Crisler is only 49. But he had coached Wolverine football for ten years, and it looked like a good time to quit. He would stay on as Michigan's athletic director, and he had picked his successor: Benjamin G. (Bennie) Oosterbaan, 47, a Michigan football immortal, three-time All-America end. A native Michigander, hulking, jocular Oosterbaan has been on Michigan's coaching staff ever since he graduated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fritz Quits | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Other appointments announced last night were those of Jerome S. Bruner as associate professor of Social Psychology, Charles F. Mosteller as associate professor of Mathematical Statistics, Benjamin S. Paul as assistant professor of Social Anthropology, Leo J. Postman as assistant professor of Social Psychology, and William O. Jenkins as lecturer in Social Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Composer Walter Piston Gets New Naumberg Chair | 3/17/1948 | See Source »

Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Radio premiere of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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