Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oversight. In Stevens Point, Wis., during a stop for gas, Mrs. Robert Benson slipped out of the back seat to visit the restroom, and her husband drove on for 93 miles before discovering she wasn...
...alley. "The Man in the Hathaway Shirt" depicted a white-shirted, debonair-looking fellow who was given a peculiar air of distinction by a black patch over his right eye. The ad was the inspiration of British-born David Ogilvy, 41, vice president of Manhattan's Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather, Inc. He got the idea from pictures of ex-Ambassador Lewis Douglas, who has worn a patch ever since he lost the sight of one eye in a fishing accident. (The man in the ad is Baron George Wrangell, émigré nephew of a White Russian general, whose...
Brigadier General Otis O. Benson, Jr., commander of the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas, where Schreiber worked until his dismissal, said he would be "turned over to the Joint Intelligence Agency in Washington for repatriation or any other disposition they see fit to make." The Air Force also pointed out that he has the right to petition the Immigration Service to stay in this country if he wants...
OCTOBER-Down by the Bough. In Attleboro, Mass., Alonzo Benson dreamed that he was lying head down in three feet of water, woke up to find himself hanging by his knees from a tree in the backyard...
After an unsuccessful attempt to found an American branch of the society in 1870, Father Benson saw its establishment in the following year through the efforts of a Harvard Law School graduate, Father Charles C. Grafton LL.B. '53. The American Chapter used the facilities of the Church of the Advent on Bowdoin Street in Boston. When the Advent moved to a new location several years later, the building became a Mission House for the Society. Meanwhile, the novitiate (those training for monastic life) resided in Hicks House, which is now the Kirkland House Library. In 1914, the American Province gained...