Word: benjamin
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...Presbyterian minister in upstate New York and the grandson of Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State (who took him to The Hague Peace Conference in 1907), John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year...
Having started with the Post Office as a clerk ut 1935, Jesse Donaldson Jr., 38, began catching up with his father, the nation's first career-man Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin. His latest appointment: assistant chief inspector of the U.S. Post Office...
...Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body. After 15 weeks' treatment he was able to go back to work, taking daily doses of stilbestrol. Periodic checkups showed continued improvement, but a few weeks ago Patient Twaddle fell downstairs, broke his neck and died...
...give his body to Massachusetts General for autopsy. What the pathologists found was the first known case in which both the original prostatic cancer and the outlying colonies in the bones had disappeared. The latter had been completely replaced by scar tissue. There is no way of knowing whether Benjamin Twaddle's cancer would have recurred if he had lived longer. The significance of his case is that this once, at least, stilbestrol helped the human body to destroy a prostatic cancer and not merely arrest...
...appears that something like this did happen once upon a time, Author Bonnet's job in The Mudlark was to fluff up the fact into a light historical novel. This, with the help of a lot of imaginary speeches and caperings by the Queen, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, he has done well enough...