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John Foster Dulles, the pastor's eldest son, was born in 1888, in the Washington residence of grandfather John Watson Foster, who fought in the Civil War, served as U.S. minister to Mexico, U.S. minister to Russia, and, when John Foster was four years old, became Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State. He was to leave a deep impression on his grandson-recounting his adventures and opening up a world of great events, as man & boy sat hour after hour fishing in Lake Ontario. In 1895, grandfather Foster helped negotiate the end of the Sino-Japanese War, with...
Federal Judge Benjamin Harrison heard the income-tax evasion case against Gambler Mickey Cohen, sentenced him to five years in jail plus a $10,000 fine, then commented: "You're not as bad as you have been pictured. Perhaps more of us would be gamblers if we'd been so lucky as you have." That conclusion hotted up the Tennessee temper of crime-busting Senator Estes Kefauver: Cohen should have been given a heavier sentence "instead of a pat on the back." From the Billy Sunday Memorial Tabernacle near Warsaw, Ind. came the view of Evangelist Billy Graham...
...program notes read like a travel brochure: "Let us walk through Mozart's garden . . . We enter by an unassuming little gate: the Symphony in D [K.84] of the 14-year-old Mozart." The guide on this all-Mozart stroll last week was Benjamin Britten, 37, one of Britain's most highly rated composers (Peter Grimes). But the Holland Festival audience in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw was in for a grievous disappointment: not only did Benjy stray off the path; he tromped on the flowers...
Next day, the critical brickbats flew from all angles: granted, Britten would have done better conducting the chamber orchestra of the English Opera Group, as originally scheduled,*but that was a poor excuse for failing to do well by Mozart. Wrote the Algemeen Handelsblad: "If Benjamin Britten belongs to the elect, yesterday he was degraded to the level of the many. It was an insipid, listless and pitiful concert . . . the public was faced with a difficult problem: cool reception or forced applause." The Nieuwe Rotterdamse C our ant was slightly more polite: "A quiet, genial evening for anyone...
...honorary office, dating back to Sir Francis Bacon, which entitles a barrister to take precedence in court, prevents him from acting against the Crown without special royal permission. The first American to receive the title: British-born Judah P. Benjamin, onetime Secretary of State of the Confederacy, who fled to England in 1865, reclaimed his birthright as a British subject, and was made Queen's Counsel...