Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partnership ended in 1936 when Bill Benton resigned, filled with a sudden zeal for public service and good works. He went to the University of Chicago as vice president, bought the Encyclopaedia Britannica in partnership with the university, also picked up a few other businesses (including Muzak, which pipes canned music into restaurants and cocktail lounges). Shortly after World War II, he became Assistant Secretary of State in charge of selling the U.S. to the world with the Voice of America. Chester Bowles, who left the ad business several years after Benton, went to Washington himself as chief...
After both had left Washington again, New Dealing Chester Bowles got himself elected governor of Connecticut while restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found it. To the ill-concealed dismay of Connecticut's regular Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut...
...Crimson's probable starting lineup includes four men who saw a great deal of action last season, and two of them center and captain Bill Prior and forward John Rockwell--started against Yale. Ed Smith, the other forward, and Cliff Crosby, one of the guards, are the other seasoned men; Bill Hickey, who will team with Crosby at guard, is the only sophomore in the lineup...
Playing at guard against Tufts will probably be Jim Downey and Bill Hickey-two more of last year's speedy freshmen-Aaron Cohodes, Dick Covey, and Cliff Crosby. Although Cohodes has seen little action in past seasons, he and the other four may well play in Saturday's game...
Seven hundred dollars will be gives away in amounts up to 350 by the Student Council to students who need help in meeting the term bill due Friday, December...