Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychiatrist Benjamin Karpman studied a magazine illustration (of a nude) handed him by Attorney Bromley, found it "sexually stimulating." Bromley promptly turned the magazine's cover, showed that the picture was in the Ladies' Home Journal...
...with eight business leaders (including Eric A. Johnston, Benjamin F. Fairless, David Sarnoff) whose advice he will henceforth seek from time to time on postwar economic problems. Among the subjects he recommended to their study: reconversion, the future of U.S. synthetic-rubber plants, how to dispose of materials and plants owned by the Government...
...Died. Benjamin Anzelevitz, 52, "Ben Bernie, the O-O-Old Maestro," genial, plush-voiced veteran of stage, radio, screen; of a lung infection with heart complications ; in Beverly Hills. An East Side New York blacksmith's son, at 15 he gave a violin recital in Carnegie Hall, took up engineering after hearing Mischa Elman's debut.* In a Brauhaus he played his way through college, finally landed in vaudeville as "Ben, The Eccentric Violinist." In the early '20s he formed one of the country's leading dance bands (for a while his pianist was Oscar Levant...
...Suspected Signers: Richard Henry Lee, Button Gwinnett, Benjamin Rush, among others...
Kentucky's Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler reiterated his contention that the Jap was U.S. enemy No. 1. that a major offensive should be launched in the Pacific, that the Administration should give General Douglas MacArthur more support...