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Bender was born in Goshen, Indiana, of Mennonite parents. After working as a grade-school teacher and as a railroad worker, he attended Goshen College until a religious controversy closed it. Bender transferred to Harvard in 1925, graduated in 1927, and received...
...Born in Goshen, N.Y., to a Jewish father and a Negro-Indian mother, the Lion soaked up the blues songs of Negro work gangs, the gospel shouts of Baptist church services, and later, the honky-tonk music of the Newark, N.J., dives where he danced for pennies as a boy. At eight, he took to the piano and started "beautifying" the hymns he learned from his mother. He went professional at 14, working his way up in a rough saloon world of pimps, pickpockets, conmen and gamblers...
Mushroom Stem. In Goshen, Ind., Elkhart County Sheriff Woody Caton heard about a tornado on his police radio at home. He ran for his car and drove toward a trailer park directly in the twister's path. He got there just after the tornado passed over. "God, what a sight!" he reported. "It was an unbelievable mess. Ninety-two trailers had been completely leveled. Another dozen were upended. Trailers were ripped from their frames, squashed and twisted. Some were tossed onto the highway. Everyone I saw was covered with blood. There wasn't a thing left...
...recently completed service as chairman of a special committee of the College Entrance Examination Board, which examined the condition from his position as a high school principal in Goshen, N.Y., and he received his Ph.D. in 1954. He graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. in 1937 and received an A.M. from the University of Michigan...
...temples, neatly dressed, educated in the Ivy League and trained in television, Gilroy must trouble the sight of all the pale poets who feel that wine, whiskers and Paris are the only stimulants of art. He works in a little $30-a-month office on the main street of Goshen, near his home in Orange County, N.Y., where he lives with his wife and three sons...