Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though "Old Man Wash" was almost illiterate, he was no "po' white," and the birthplace of his sons Brodie, Benjamin Newton ("Ben") and James Buchanan ("Buck") was no log cabin but a farmhouse surrounded by 300 acres of good North Carolina land. In 1865 the Civil War was over; Wash was 45 years old, had 500 in cash and a bag of tobacco that Federal soldiers had left on the farm. This he sifted, labeled Pro Bono Publico, sold in Durham. Then he built a log cabin on his farm, made more tobacco, a great deal more...
...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 price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted} to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
Alumni of the Harvard Theological School will return to the University today and tomorrow for the annual visitation. A series of conferences and lectures has ben planned, including the Dudleian Lecture to be given this afternoon by Professor John Baillie, and the Ingersoll Lecture tomorrow afternoon by Professor J. S. Bixler. At 8 o'clock this evening in Emerson D Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, will give a public lecture on "The New Reformation...
Actor Menjou makes "son of a ?" sound even more opprobrious and gutter-snipish than the term sounded in the mouth of Osgood Perkins who created the managing editor's part in the Broadway Front Page of onetime Chicago Newshawks Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Items more impolite than any which have previously appeared in cinema are faithfully reproduced from the play's stage version. The scene, which changes rarely through the picture, is the press room of a "Mythical Kingdom's" criminal courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter...
...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...