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...Elected the Council's first Negro vice president (to serve with Manhattan's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, outstanding Methodist liberal [TIME, June 26], who was elected president, to succeed Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker). He is quiet, earnest Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, 49, Baptist minister and president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. A firm believer in education and patience as cures for racial discrimination, Baptist Mays is himself so tolerant that he has never once tried to proselytize his Methodist wife...
...ILIAD OF HOMER, A LINE FOR LINE TRANSLATION IN DACTYLIC HEXAMETERS-William Benjamin Smith and Walter Miller-Macmillan...
Mary Purnell, vigorous, 83-year-old "Queen" of the City of David and widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the vegetarian, ball-playing House of David, told her bearded subjects that Adolf Hitler had somehow conveyed a personal message to her. Said Hitler: "I'm dead. Stop the war. I'm sorry...
Before the American Revolution, the colonies sent agents to England. Benjamin Franklin was one, but the rest are largely forgotten. What Dr. Lonn wanted to know was who they were, how they lived, what they did, how much they earned. These and other facts she had set herself to discover from almost undecipherable letters, records and minutes of the British Board of Trade 300 years before...
...Married. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 54, kinetic president of U.S. Steel, son of an Ohio miner ; and Hazel Hatfield Sproul, 44, daughter of West Virginia's onetime Governor Henry Hatfield, descendant of the feuding Hatfields (v. McCoys) , mother-in-law of President Fairless' son, Navy Lieut. Elaine Fairless ; both for the second time; in Huntington, W. Va. Lieut. and Mrs. Fairless attended the bridal couple...