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...Negro has a real voice in the administration of State College. It is governed by a six man, all-white board of trustees, drawn from business and professional men of the Orangeburg region. The board is all-powerful, but it leaves routine decisions to the college president, Benner C. Turner. When Turner was selected in 1950, the trustees asked each candidate two questions...
...Court has recognized, implementation of its ruling will be difficult. The mentality that bred segregation has not yet died. For legal decisions cannot eliminate apathetic, even hostile state legislatures. And they can only slowly conquer the fear that creates men like Benner C. Turner...
...other two men, both at Camp Perry last week, are the nonpareils of pistoldom. Army Master Sergeant Huelet L. Benner, 35, who teaches pistolry to West Pointers, has broken 2,600 more times than he can recall, holds the official U.S. record of 2,644. Ex-Marine Major Harry Reeves, 44, now a pistol professor (as a lieutenant) for Detroit's police department, has cracked the point barrier some 30 times. His most amazing performance: a brilliant (but unofficial) U.S. record of 2,649 points...
...Steady Squeeze. As they have ever since 1940, Benner and Reeves monopolized this year's match despite their crack rivals. After a day's shooting, -they were tied. Next day Policeman Reeves finished up 14 points ahead of Benner. But on the final day of the match. Reeves was a candidate for a hospital bed. With a fiery strep throat, full of fever (104°) and penicillin, he dragged himself to the range. At noon, he still held a thin lead over Armyman Benner. While the others ate lunch, Harry Reeves flopped in his hut. Shuttling between...
...first case under the new act came up last week in London's musty Strand Law Courts. British War Bride Violet Benner sued for a divorce from ex-G.I. Wilbert Roy Benner of Austin, Texas. The judge, noting that Mrs. Benner was getting free legal aid, said to her counsel: "You are making history." Reminding the judge that his client had gotten a cut rate under the act, Wilbert Benner's counsel added: "I think we both...