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...night, while rereading Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, he found an assistant for his experiment. Next day Government and Communist conferees were handed a translation from English into Chinese, with a brief preface: "The following address was delivered to the Convention which produced the Constitution of the U.S. It was given by Benjamin Franklin, then in his 82nd year." The Chinese, who had been grumbling over the unity formula just worked out by their own constitutional convention, the Political Consultation Conference, read what Franklin...
...trying to get a rise, he got one. N.R.D.G.A.'s President Benjamin H. Namm shouted right back. The Association, said he, "does not seek an end to price control." What the Association did want was to change the way price control worked, notably many of the things which Bowles himself now admitted needed changing...
...Benjamin H. Lacy...
Married. Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 35, sad-faced, Charley Horsy left fielder of baseball's champion Detroit Tigers; and Caral Gimbel Lasker, 30, horsy daughter of Manhattan Merchant Prince Bernard Feustman Gimbel (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Avenue); he for the first time, she for the second; at Brunswick...
Died. Patriarch Benjamin I, 78, since 1936 the 265th Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church-and as such the Ecumenical Patriarch (that is, spiritual sovereign of all Orthodox Churches); of bronchitis; in Istanbul...