Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maria's benefactor is a dapper millionaire banker from Healdsburg, Calif, named Benjamin Bloom. "Benny," as he is known to everybody in San Salvador, built the hospital 22 years ago, and gave it to the government. His one proviso: that he (and after his death, his wife Aline) should have a free hand in running...
...Benjamin Bloom landed in El Salvador in 1890 and went into banking. His steadiest business was the financing of coffee crops. When planters dropped in at his office in San Salvador's Banco Occidental, he usually put them at ease with a couple of smoking-car stories. Then he would bury his face in an oversized telephone mouthpiece that masked his lips and prevented his visitors from hearing his conversation with his clerk about their financial standing...
...income taxes, Benny became a citizen of El Salvador. Says Benny, whose fortune is estimated at $25 million: "Everything I have I got from El Salvador, and I intend to leave it all here." Last week he proudly noted that the 500,000th patient had been treated at Hospital Benjamin Bloom...
...Rimbaud, who went looking for the secrets of life in its sewers, via drugs and debauchery. A lot of what Rimbaud (rhymes with Sambo) had to say was "indecent," Ashton told himself; but perhaps he could put Rimbaud into successful ballet just the same. Ashton's countryman, Composer Benjamin Britten, had set nine songs from Rimbaud's Les Illuminations for tenor voice and string orchestra. Last month, with Britten's music in his baggage, Ashton set out for Manhattan...
...Ideal Pattern. When Australian-born Gilbert Murray entered St. John's College, Oxford, in the 1880s, the great Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett, translator of Plato and Master of Balliol College, was one of the most venerated and influential men in England; Gladstone and his Liberals seemed to be among the eternal forces in English politics, and the poetry of Tennyson and Swinburne was much admired. In years to follow, if fewer & fewer men bore the hallmark of the Greek scholar and the classicist, it was not Gilbert Murray's fault...