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Certain that control will remain in the family (through the voting stock), the Fords are already laying plans to fit the younger brothers into the dynastic pattern. Benson Ford, now 26, has just been released from the Army, will probably be settled down in labor relations. Breezy, talkative, he liked formal education even less than Henry, spent only a year at Princeton. After his draft board rejected him (he is virtually blind in one eye), he managed to enlist anyway, ended up as a lieutenant. .Billy, 20, was in the Navy's V-5 program, likes to tinker with...
...still far from its former glory, but all the habitable houses are full and so are two new tourist courts with a capacity of 200. Many arthritics, unable to find room in Tombstone, motor the 72 miles from Tucson or the 20-odd miles from Bisbee and Benson to take the treatment. The old Crystal Palace Bar is in full swing and sick people wander around visiting the site of the OK Corral and gawking at Million Dollar Stope, a caved-in mine near the middle of town...
Spiritual Lift. In Albany, Bell Aircraft's Benson Hamlin announced that jet planes can run on corn liquor...
Memphis Bound (lyrics & music by Don Walker & Clay Warnick; book by Albert Barker & Sally Benson; produced by John Wildberg) was first conceived as a swing H.M.S. Pinafore, later converted into an extravaganza about a Negro troupe who put on Pinafore to get their grounded showboat (the Calliboga Queen) off the Mississippi mudflats. But their version proves too much for their lady producer, and she bangs down the curtain...
Died. Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Lord Charnwood, 80, English biographer of Americans (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt), one-shot detective story writer (Tracks in the Snow), five-term Liberal Member of Parliament; in England...