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Elegant & Expensive. Some of the merchandise is elegant and expensive. London Silversmith Gerald Benney, designer of the ciborium for Coventry's new cathedral, offers a squat, modern tea service for $1,080. Harry Hall Ltd., outfitters for sportsmen, has the latest foxhunting outfit for men, including riding whip, for $163. But many items are both stylish and moderately priced. For example, Wedgwood sells a five-piece setting of bone china...
After the game, Aristides Demetrios, Navy center fielder who organized the contest, presented the ball-autographed by the Navy team-to Captain Carroll T. Benney, associate professor of Naval Science. Bonney is retiring on June...
...Brooklyn, St. Luke's German Evangelical Reformed Church was about to move to new quarters. But before moving, the Rev. Benney Benson "deconsecrated" the old building with a service of his own devising (among other things, he threw a bottle of ink at an effigy of the devil). Reason: the athletic club which had bought the building planned to set up a bar on the premises...
Pain & Joy. In Brooklyn, it was an agonizing week. On the steps of Borough Hall, the Rev. Benney S. C. Benson knelt and intoned: "Oh Lord, their chances don't look so good right now, but everyone is praying for the Bums to win. We ask you not to give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned...
...BoxCar Bertha," whose ghost-written autobiography appeared last week, doubles the estimate. Whether or not Bertha is always strictly accurate in her figures or her facts, her narrative is cauliflower-ear-marked by the brutal truth, wears no wig. Beside Sister of the Road, such recent revelations as Mark Benney's Angels in Undress and John Worby's The Other Half, pale into comparative respectability. Bertha's birthright was a mess. Her mother, a handsome blonde who advocated and practiced free love on her father's Kansas farm, had four children, each by a different...