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...Suspected Signers: Richard Henry Lee, Button Gwinnett, Benjamin Rush, among others...
Kentucky's Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler reiterated his contention that the Jap was U.S. enemy No. 1. that a major offensive should be launched in the Pacific, that the Administration should give General Douglas MacArthur more support...
Last week Enrico Caruso's only daughter was married in Rockville, Md. to Ensign Michael Hunt Murray, U.S.N.R., of Garrison. N.Y. Enrico Caruso's dark-haired, 23-year-old Gloria (by his 1918 marriage to Dorothy Benjamin Caruso, then and now of Manhattan) shares at least one thing in common with the rest of her generation. She is too young to remember her father's voice-the voice which millions have never forgotten. She was less than a year old on that operatic night in Brooklyn when blood suddenly spurted in Enrico Caruso's throat...
...higher educator last week discussed without tears the state of liberal education. Said he: "Liberal education in America has never been exclusively a preserve of the college. The great liberals . . . were largely self-educated like Benjamin Franklin. In the middle of the 19th Century, colleges were small, few. . . . Everywhere there [were] reading clubs, lyceums . . . well in advance of academic life with respect to art, literature, philosophy, psychology. . . . Millions of adults ... refuse to believe that [liberal education] is closed to [those] not attending college...
...male needs proof that women's hats are crazy-and that men get stuck for them-Benjamin Benedict Greenfield of Chicago is the man to see for evidence. At his Bes-Ben hat shop on Chicago's plush North Michigan Avenue, he has sold hats with everything on them from dish mops to jewels at a minimum price of $37.75, and an alltime high of $1,000 (complete with an emerald and ruby brooch). Last week, suave, dark-eyed Ben wowed the ladies again with a fashion show for Chicago's pet society charity, St. Luke...