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...plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer) ; in East Orange. Eighteenth employe of the plant to die of radium poisoning, she was one of five whose suits were settled out of court in 1928 for $10,000 each plus small annuities. Died, George Benjamin Luks, 66, painter, last of the famed Luks-Robert Henri-George Bellows triumvirate; in a midtown Manhattan hallway, where a policeman found his body; of coronary sclerosis. In Williamsport, Pa. he declared himself an artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when...
When Lawyer Benjamin H. Ludlow, secretary of the Orchestra Association, at last mounted an auctioneer's stand draped with a red sale-today flag, the bidding was prompt and generous. Debutantes went from table to table collecting written pledges. The players whose music was being auctioned lost some of their selfesteem, but the $17,000 which was raised restored half their last pay cut, gave 600 impoverished music students free tickets for the season...
...Married. Benjamin Holt ("Ben") Ticknor, famed Harvard footballer (1931); and Barbara Farmer, daughter of Yale's Athletic Director Malcolm Farmer; in New Haven, Conn...
...exhibition galleries, its classrooms and offices, the museum boasts a fully equipped stage. On view in its permanent collection last week was a small but extremely well chosen group of those 18th Century portraitists that tycoons loved to collect before Depression: Gainsborough. Lawrence, Raeburn, Reynolds, Romney and Benjamin West, besides Canaletto, Guardi and Goya...
...troubles Benny fell in love with Margaret Markoe. Uncertain, coy and hard to please, she led him a weary dance but finally married him. Benjamin Franklin died. The same year (1790) Benny started his first newspaper, the General Advertiser, and Political, Commercial, Agricultural and Literary Journal...