Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it is possible for a dog-owner to win permanent possession of a National Championship cup with three different dogs, strangely enough such has never been the case. The only other three-time winners were William Ziegler Jr. of Manhattan and Louis Lee Haggin (nephew of Artist Ben AH Haggin), Owner Ziegler in each case with Mary Montrose (1917, 1919, 1920), Owner Haggin with Becky Broom Hill...
...Volpone. Ben Jonson's acrid comedy of the Levantine who pretended illness in order to extract gifts from those who wished to be remembered in his will, has been a staple of the Theatre Guild both in Manhattan and on the road. The Guild now brings it back to Manhattan, excellently played by a cast including Earle Larimore as the servant Mosca who outfoxed his bedridden master...
...CROSS YOUR FINGERS (Columbia)-Besides uncommon spirit, Ben Selvin's band which plays these has a good piano, a good male quartet for its vocal refrains...
...visitation: when that worthy arrived to hold confirmation, all confirmable youths and maidens were at Shelton fair. So pretty Lottie Truggin, already confirmed, had episcopal hands laid on her again. Thus began Parson Dottery's troubles. But everyone, with the exception of the evil-minded Canon Dib-ben, his no less evil-minded wife, did what they could to help their parson: his housekeeper, Mrs. Taste, his sexton, Truggin, Farmer Spenke, Publican Toole. Everybody in the village was a character, shrewd in his own right, simple in his own way. Unlike most books ostensibly about parsons, Kindness...
Last week after grim weeks of combing the shattered wreckage of their plane (southeast of Cape North, Siberia), the bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last...