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...life raft. Four were children: Carol and Richard Shaw, whose mother and sister were drowned and whose father had vanished, and Mary and Robert Bell, whose missionary mother was rescued with them. Also dragged out of the sea was the torpedoed merchantman's skipper, 86-year-old Benjamin Bogdan of Brooklyn. Crowded on the raft, the 18 floated on the vast ellipse of the Caribbean. The sun beat down...
...real life the late Clarence Day Sr., crusty Wall Street broker of the horsecar days, son of the New York Sun's Founder Benjamin...
Sweet Sorrow. In South Norwalk, Conn., farewells to soldiers reminded Veteran Benjamin Keeler's friends that they had never given him the farewell dinner they planned in 1917. They mended matters by banqueting...
...even the worst treated among them admitted he had got off easy by comparison with John Benjamin ("J.B.") Powell, editor since 1917 of the China Weekly Review. In a Manhattan hospital, 56-year-old Editor Powell lay horribly emaciated, crippled for life. He had lost all ten toes as a result of freezing and gangrene in Shanghai's notorious Bridgehouse Prison...
Previously located at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, Harvard's Army Chaplain School, the only one in an American college, started graduating 150 at a time, but will increase in size until 450 are graduated every 28 days. All the students live in Perkins Hall, while classes are held in Andover Hall and the Germanic and Semitic Museums...