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...Stokes gives no aid & comfort to those who would interpret the U.S. Constitution as a blueprint for a secularist society. Over & over again, he stresses the basically religious-and Christian-premises of the founding fathers. Even Benjamin Franklin, considered the most skeptical, urged at the Federal Convention in 1787 that each session begin with prayer. "I have lived, Sir, a long time," he said, "and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth-that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice...
Death on the Beach. His results made him an international figure. Although the American Revolution had begun when Cook sailed in 1776 on his third voyage, Benjamin Franklin passed the word to U.S. privateers to let the Englishman alone. The French Minister of Marine issued similar orders...
...some of the festival's choral numbers, he had assembled 1,800 singers, including some 600 children. Once the enthusiasm had to be coaxed out of the kids. Rehearsing Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony, Busch urged the boys to make their whistling less "polite"; he promptly got a resounding wolf whistle, and smiled his appreciation. Said he: "They know their stuff. I bring it out of them...
...present Congress, all concrete proposals for federal aid to education have run aground on the muddy side issue of parochial schools. Last week's convention of the American Council on Education heard a formula for clearing the channel. Said Dean Harold Benjamin of the University of Maryland, a backer of federal...
Though the firm is still controlled by such sixth-generation descendants as Alexander Brown Griswold, 43, and his brother Benjamin Howell Griswold Ill, 38, the active head is greying, sharp-eyed Charles Stedman Garland, 51, no kin. An Old Blue who captained the Yale and Davis Cup tennis teams and once won (with R. Norris Williams II) the world championship doubles at Wimbledon, Chuck Garland became a partner in Alex. Brown & Sons in 1939, is a past president of the venerable Investment Bankers' Association...