Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public eye. As Carl Sagan notes, his example inspired numerous Depression-era youngsters to choose scientific careers. His persona and pronouncements became legends. Asked why he used one soap for washing as well as shaving, he replied, "Two soaps? That is too complicated." Even when receiving visitors like David Ben-Gurion (who later offered him the presidency of Israel), Einstein often would be tieless and sockless. Recalls Physicist-Biographer Banesh Hoffmann, who worked with Einstein: "He never tried to show you how clever he was. He always made you feel comfortable...
Long-range financial forecasts can embarrass anyone-even so savvy a money manager as Benjamin Franklin. Eager to demonstrate that a penny saved is indeed a penny earned, Ben at his death in 1790 left a bit less than $9,000 in trust for 200 years to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia; he directed that it be loaned to "young married artisans" who had finished apprenticeships and were setting up their own businesses. Interest on the loans, he predicted would build up the funds to $18 million...
Treasures from Ben Sonnenberg's mansion go on auction...
...stroke of irony that he would, no doubt, have relished, Ben Sonnenberg died last September, at age 77, during the New York newspaper strike. Thus he had no obituaries of any size, and his passing, though mourned by friends, made little news. But then, Sonnenberg's profession was to be the midwife of stories, not their subject. He was one of the first modern public relations men. Indeed he had been at the game so long-"fashioning," as he once put it, "large pedestals for small statues"-that many people thought he had invented the p.r. business...
...Ben Barti, superintendent of Winthrop House, said yesterday he believes workers have already sprayed disinfectant to deodorize the halls...