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Games. The country's most famed religious sect baseball team is that of the House of David (Benton Harbor, Mich.), whose members believe in letting their hair and beards grow while they await the millenium, secure in the faith of their own immortality. Many famed ballplayers, when outmoded in the big leagues, might find solace and gain in such precepts by joining the House of David baseball team which netted $40,000 one season. Against the Brooklyn Robins last month, the House of David team scored two runs in the last inning after a rally led by bush-bearded...
...Cannon of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (TIME, May 26 et seq.) But remarkable were the financial coups of Brigham Young who took unto himself the great monopolies of the Desert, tolls on gates and roads, timber rights. The late Benjamin ("King") Purnell of the House of David, at Benton Harbor, Mich, across Lake Michigan from Zion City, took unto himself and his Queen Mary the rights to some $1,000,000 worth of his followers' properties until 1927 when he was ignominiously banished from his throne and his belongings taken by a receiver. In 1928 Millionaire Voliva...
...captains of Harvard winter sports teams were elected yesterday as their respective teams assembled at Notman's to have their pictures taken. Charles Crehore Cunningham '32, of Milton, was named as leader of the 1932 hockey sextet while Benton Spangler Wood '32, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was selected by his teammates to head next year's swimming team...
...time for its opening next week. In the board room ready to be looked at were nine vibrant mural panels which have already attracted national attention and brought fame to the New School as a building, whatever may be its success as an institution. The artist is Thomas Hart Benton. Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., on the edge of the Ozarks, a great-nephew of Andrew Jackson's trusted Senator Thomas Hart Benton, son of Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton. At 17, Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly...
Gobel advertising is handled by Benton & Bowles. Before setting out on the campaign 200 New York women were called at random on the telephone. Only seven were in favor of the 18th Amendment. That decided Benton & Bowles...