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...grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson, was a Mormon apostle. His father, George Taft Benson, was a farmer at Whitney (southern) Idaho, where Ezra was born. As the middle name indicates, he is a remote relative of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. Said Benson: "We have a common ancestral progenitor about six generations back. My great-great-grandmother was a Taft." Benson attended Oneida Stake Academy (Mormon) at Preston, Idaho and the Utah State Agricultural College, got his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1926, a master of science degree in agricultural economics from the University...
Usually when a stellar explosion occurs a very faint star is found on earlier plates in the same position as the explosion, but no progenitor has been found for the new blazing star, which is known as the Nova Lacertae...
...dull, dispiriting performance. Said one disheartened Laborite: "The Prime Minister is a prolific progenitor of mice." Winston Churchill solemnly rose from the Opposition front bench and asked: "If these proposals are practical and adequate, why were they not put forward two or three years ago when we asked that a bridle be put on expenditure...
Brooke enjoyed his short life too much to bear down often with sustained intensity on any writing, artistic or critical. Poverty and illness and ambition drove his poetic progenitor John Keats; but early success, doting friends and romantic passions distracted Brooke. He was almost at his best in his letters. From a Munich boardinghouse he described a "monstrous, tired-faced, screeching, pouchy creature, of infinite age and horror, who screams opposite me at dinner and talks with great crags of food projecting from her mouth." Musing on Niagara Falls, Poet Brooke wrote: "The river, with its multitudinous waves...
...Montparnasse cafe table in 1922 with Sinclair Lewis, "arch-progenitor ... of the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing" [TIME, May 12], I do not remember that "every [American] expatriate eye turned icily away." Quite the contrary. Those eyes welcomed him as a prosperous bestseller, and with a few ragged introductions, the self-invited guests started pushing tables together. The saucers recording the prices of the drinks rose higher & higher, and so did the comments on the shameful commercialism of writing books like Main Street and Babbitt. Mr. Lewis was extraordinarily patient, but finally called for the bill-suddenly all chairs...