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...Times, for some reason, failed to recognize this. Benjamin Fine, the educational editor, who conducted the poll and wrote it up, stated that only about two per cent of the answers received were facetious, and "we quoted no facetious answers. They were all thrown out immediately...
Died. Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, 73, pioneer juvenile-court reformer, champion of companionate marriage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In the flaming '20s, his companionate-marriage idea - essentially a proposal for an enlightened attitude on marriage - was sensationally publicized as everything from trial marriage to free love, once led to his ejection from Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, when he shouted back at Bishop Manning, who had just assailed his "propaganda . . . in behalf of lewdness" from the pulpit. Soon after he reached the Denver bench 43 years ago, little Judge Lindsey started reforming...
...citizens paid little attention to the whole affair. There were good reasons: 1) no big-time officials were involved; the highest ranking wrongdoer found was a plant metallurgist; 2) U.S. Steel's president, smart, suave Benjamin F. Fairless, made no attempt to defend his company, readily admitted "very, very poor management," promised that all involved "will have to walk the plank...
...Spirit. The Murray Hill's crinoline-&-lavender atmosphere was the expression of one man: Benjamin L. M. Bates. Son of a Manhattan hotel owner, Ben Bates evolved his philosophy of an elegant life when, as a boy, he watched his father's daily ritual in preparing punch from Medford Rum.* He started out at the Murray Hill as assistant night clerk, soon rose to manager. He saved his money, increased it by speculation. When the hotel went on the auction block, he held a mortgage on all the furnishings, became the natural and successful bidder. Ben Bates...
...incoming-wife past weekend, Nothing like it for that old lowdown feeling, he argues. . . . Bob Brinker and his rental allowance made the try to Harford, Conn. last Saturday. Seems Bob wanted a taste of big city life again after six days of calithenics, disbursing ashore, and how much mileage Benjamin Franklin got from Boston to Philadelphia if he left before he started and new orders arrived while he was asking Congress for leave in New York, Just to make it good, make his plane break down somewhere along the line and give him a state room on a horse...