Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Episcopal monks to their duties. The Monastery, located next to the MTA car barn on Memorial Drive, is the Mother House of the American Congregation of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist; a society which originated in Oxford, England in 1865 under the direction of Father Richard Meux Benson...
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...
...Jacobs, at 16 the youngest golfer ever to reach the men's semifinals. Walker Cupper Frank Stranahan and 1951 British Amateur Titleholder Dick Chapman had already fallen in earlier rounds. Young Billy Maxwell blasted his way into the last round by knocking off 250-lb. Pittsburgh Realtor Jack Benson...
...Born. To Benson Ford, 31, vice president of the Ford Motor Co. and general manager of its Lincoln-Mercury Division, and Edith McNaughton Ford, 31: their second child, first daughter; in Detroit. Name: Lynn McNaughton. Weight: 5 Ibs. 100z...
Seventeen (book by Sally Benson, based on Booth Tarkington's novel; music by Walter Kent; lyrics by Kim Gannon) is chiefly a period musical, with more tinkle than Tarkington, more of life in 1907 than of love at 17. Some of it is agreeable enough. But the infatuation of Willie Baxter for Lola Pratt seems much less a fondly done comic valentine than a conventional lace one, and a genuine American classic of youngness has become a mere frolic of youth...