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...Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...
Married. Diana Gumming, daughter of Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming of the Public Health Service; and Manville Kendrick, son of Senator John Benjamin Kendrick of Wyoming; in Washington. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was among the guests...
...Benjamin Hill & Co.: Samuel S. Fontaine, onetime cub reporter under the late great Col. Henry Watterson; for more than 25 years Financial Editor of the New York World...
Late in November Lieut. Benjamin ("Benny the Gas Boy") Mendez, U. S.-trained chief pilot of Colombia's air service, rose from the field at Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I., to fly 4,600 miles to Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next...
...been furnishing you for the most part with rationalizations. If you ask me why abnormal psychology is at Harvard, perhaps the true answer, is that; "we're here because we're here". And if you ask me for what good are we, I might retort in the words of Benjamin Franklin: "What good is a new born babe?" an "enfant terrible" though...