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...Nels J. Benson, houseman at Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes' Evanston, Ill. home, said he had received a letter from his employer in London directing him to make an appointment at the Ambassador's favorite local barber shop. Said Houseman Benson to the barber: "You'd better get all your bottles filled up. From the way he writes, I think he'll take the works...
...full-grown (60-lb.) male baboon. The hunt continued. Toward nightfall Dr. Paul Denicola fired into a copse near an open field and another baboon breathed its last. That was the end of Merrimack's great May hunting day. The baboons, lately bought by Mr. Braden from the Benson Animal Farm, had escaped while being transferred from one cage to another, had rooted up some of Dr. Denicola's rhubarb. Merrimackers were afraid they might bite...
...Hellman; Crack U. S. Army Aviator James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle; Tennis Champion Helen Wills Moody; President Aurelia H. Reinhardt of Mills College (Oakland); Julius Klein, U. S. assistant secretary of commerce; Vice President Willis H. Booth of Guaranty Trust Co., onetime president of International Chamber of Commerce; President William Benson Storey of A. T. & S. F. Creed, late president of Pacific Gas & Electric...
...Benson Murder Case (Paramount). This was the first mystery story S. S. Van Dine ever wrote. It is also the least interesting, an approach-none too assured-toward the method he developed in his later books. Paramount hack writers have made it better on the whole with the changes they introduce. Benson, who gets murdered, is a stockbroker. He has ruined several of his customers by selling them out in a market slump and each of the ruined traders has some other, private, reason for killing him. One evening they all meet at Benson's place in the country...
...Benson's corpse tumbling down the stairs...