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...returned to make his home in the U. S. after 51 years in France. Born to a Civil War brigadier on the military reservation at West Point 73 years ago, he went to Paris in 1885 as a penniless young engi eer fresh from Yale. His job was with Hotchkiss & Cie., French armament concern founded by a Connecticut Yankee who had sold arms to the Union until 1865, moved to France before the Franco-Prussian War. Engineer Benet has spent most of his life perfecting the Hotchkiss machine gun, now standard equipment in two of the world's biggest...
Benet has been Hotchkiss' managing director for years, wears the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, is a Commander of the Crown of Rumania and a Commander of the Military Order of Christ (Portu al). He was the grand old man of the American Colony in Paris and Mrs. Benet's salons were the envy of all aspiring...
...Benet resigned as Hotchkiss managing director before he left, but his permanent successor has not yet been named. The company's most profitable product is its machine gun, invented by Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss about the same time Maxim and Catling were devising their early weapons. The present Hotchkiss is a magnificent piece of engineering capable of 600 shots per minute. Other arms are manufactured and also automobiles, but the machine gun is the product that really enabled Hotchkiss & Cie. to earn as much as 23,500,000 francs in the late 1920's. Last year's report...
Harold Palmer, Jr., of Scarsdale, N. Y., a Freshman in Harvard College, has been awarded the historic Pennoyer Scholarship, one of the oldest foundations at Harvard for undergraduates of high scholastic standing. Palmer is a graduate of Hotchkiss School...
Nonplussed Paris dinner guests of Mrs. Laurence Vincent Benét, U. S. wife of the Managing Director of La Societe Hotchkiss et Cie. (machine guns), aunt-in-law of the Poets Benét, reported that between cocktails and soup Hostess Benet served each female guest with a cotton puff on a silver waiter and a brief note: "Please dispose of your lipstick. ... I love and value my linen...