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Until last week, museums were generally unkind to Thomas Hart Benton and Benton was unkind to museums. They resemble graveyards, he remarked ten years ago, "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait . . . Nobody goes to museums. I'd like to sell [my paintings] to saloons...
...Mail Order. Today, EB is one of the most prosperous properties ($2,000,000 net in royalty revenues since 1943) of the University of Chicago. It became such seven years ago, when ex-Adman William Benton, now Democratic Senator from Connecticut, maneuvered its transfer from Sears, Roebuck & Co. ("Do you think it appropriate that a mail-order house should own the encyclopaedia?" he had asked). Benton still heads EB's board of directors, while Chicago's retiring Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins still presides over its board of editors. The top editing job belongs to wiry Editor Walter Yust...
...many a hospital patient, the worst ordeal of all is the indignity and discomfort of the bedpan. Nonetheless, doctors and nurses for years have stubbornly insisted on its use by the bedridden. In the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Manhattan Doctors Joseph Benton, Henry Brown and Howard Rusk report the results of a careful observation at Bellevue Hospital that may foreshadow the bedpan...
Died. Clarence Baker Goshorn, 57, president (1942-50) of Benton & Bowles, Inc., one of the nation's top ten advertising agencies, since 1949 chairman of the board of the "4 A's" (American Association of Advertising Agencies); by accidental drowning; in the Bahamas...
Fred Gwynne as a member of the expedition is handy with his long lower jaw; Kerry Lyne, who is (or masquerading as) Gwynne's fiancee throws a hip in the Puddings best hairy-leg tradition. And both Gwynne and Lyne can sing. Nick Benton holds up the awful part of a Cambodian princess with a Brooklyn accent ("The Priestess with the Leastest on the Ball") and does remarkably well...