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...first two American magazines were issued within three days of each other and lasted less than six months. In 1740 Benjamin Franklin conceived the notion of issuing a periodical imitative of those flourishing in England. He took into his confidence one John Webbe, contracted with him to "dispose the Materials, make Abstracts, and write what shall be necessary for promoting the Thing &C . . . B. F. to be at all Expense." But perfidious Mr. Webbe took the scheme to another printer and beat Franklin's General Magazine to the streets by three days with his (the first) American Magazine. Mr. Franklin...
...little before Christmas one Benjamin Minturn of Chicago heard that, because of lagging stamp sales, the post office at Florence, Kan., his home town, would be reduced to third class, and that his old schoolmate, Postmaster Shamus O'Brien, might have his salary cut. To Schoolmate O'Brien he sent $1,000 for stamps, to make Florence seem like more of a post office (TIME, Dec. 30). Last week this kind deed was nullified. Postmaster O'Brien was informed from Washington that the $1,000 order would not count in his year's business. Postmasters were...
Married. Margery Lee ("Peggy") Mastbaum, daughter of the late Jules E. Mastbaum, rich Philadelphia movie-chain owner; and Representative Benjamin M. Colder of Pennsylvania; at Philadelphia...
...Justices Story, Gray, McKenna; Brown, Holmes, Moody, Brandeis, and Sanford, and of Chief Justice Fuller and Taft, all of the United States Supreme Bench. Chief Justice Fuller and Justices Brown, Gray, Brandeis, Holmes; Story, Sanford, and Moody were either professors at Harvard or graduates of the School. Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, A.B. 1829, LL.B. '32, is the only graduate of the Law School who sat on the Supreme Bench of the United States not represented in the group. The collection in that room includes etchings, engravings, and photographs of courts, judges, and lawyers, and of graduates of the School...
Recent acquisitions include portraits of Sir Nathan Wright, Benjamin Prat, Sir John Maynard, John Williams and Stephen Sewall. The portrait of Maynard is by Kneller and is regarded as one of the finest paintings in the School's collection. Maynard, who served under Cromwell and Charles II, was a great legal scholar and edited the Year Books. The portrait represents him in his red robe as serjeant-at-law and the special head dress--the coif--of the serjeants...