Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointer, Mary Blue, by James Ben Hur out of Lee's Grace, drowsing in her kennel at Hayneville, Ala., last week might have been dreaming with a dog's sharp reminiscence of the end of that three hour run; she might have been wondering whether the time had not come for her handler to bring her a platter of lean, raw meat; or she might have guessed, from the smell of the pine crate that was almost overpowering in her infinitely acute nostrils, that she was soon to make another trip to Grand Junction where, on March...
Died. Emily Todd Helm, 93, relict of General Ben Hardin Helm, half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln, supposedly the last lingering close associate of Abraham Lincoln; near Lexington, Ky. When President Lincoln offered him a union commission at the beginning of the Civil War, General Helm declined, joined a Confederate brigade organized by a friend of his father, was killed at Chickamauga...
...stellar names is undeniable for one finds men like Captain Treman, who won a third in the 600 last year, Levering who fought off Captain Reid of the Harvard team last winter to win a victory in the two mile, and Clark, star hurdler who ran close to Ben Hedges, Olympic man in the Princeton-Cornell meet last spring. It is not, however, the known performers that make Cornell a threat, but rather the unknown material in nearly every event. A hasty glance at the entry list shows that sophomores are conspicuous by their presence...
...author of "O Rare Ben Johnson" writes the amazing record of Elizabeth's Lord Chancellor, the brilliant philosopher, statesman, sycophant, whose downfall was the climax of one of the most astonishing careers in history...
...Eielson, of Hatton, N. Dak., en route to claim the body of his son Pilot Carl Ben Eielson if and when found in Siberia, was met in Seattle by W. E. Borland, father of Mechanic Earl Borland, who died with Eielson (see above...