Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the auspices of the Harvard Dramatic Club the Ben Greet Players will again appear in Boston when they give Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" and "Julius Caesar" in January. Sir Philip Ben Greet and an all-English company will give only two performances both at Jordan Hall on January 19. Julius Caesar will be presented at a matinee and the "Comedy of Errors" in the evening...
...Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When did the first Muscle Shoals bill pass? Who got a black eye for calling Ben Till man a liar?* The answer to all such questions: "Ask Preston." Friendly and help ful about the gallery, Jim Preston, in his loose, wrinkled clothes with vest pockets crammed with notebooks and pencils, often adopts playful ferocity toward pesky correspondents...
Flights of such special nature are frequently undertaken by aviation companies in Alaska but Alaskan Airways (pioneered by the late Carl Ben Eielson) is now also operating monthly passenger & express service between Anchorage and Bristol Bay (southern coast), weekly beI tween Anchorage and Bethel (southwest), weekly between Fairbanks and Nome, monthly between Fairbanks and Wiseman (above the Arctic Circle), weekly between Fairbanks, Fort Yukon & Dawson (Yukon). Compared to domestic U. S. airways, Alaskan fares are high ($200 between Fairbanks & Nome). But they are much cheaper than the only other means of winter travel-dogteam. The Fair-banks-Nome flight takes...
...Barry Wood is tall (6 ft. 1 in.), slim (173 lb.), a Phi Beta Kappa. He has dark hair, dark eyes, looks like his father, a Harvard 1902 Boston cotton broker and Harvard trustee who likes squash, tennis, golf. Like many of Harvard's famed athletes-Ben and Bill Ticknor, Charlie Cunningham, recent Hallowells and Saltonstalls-Barry Wood was schooled at Milton, where his football coach was onetime Harvard Quarterback Charlie Buell. A year out West made him rugged enough for college football, which he says he plays because enough hard exercise makes it easier to study. Other games...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...