Someone was ridiculed recently in a newspaper for the spelling “Ben Johnson,” the critic caustically inquiring, “How would it look spelled ‘0 rare Ben Johnson’ ?” William Lyon Phelps in “As I Like It” in Scribner’s Magazine says, ‘T know exactly liow it would "jok mr I have seen it in Westminster Abbey; it looks like this: ‘O rare Ben Johnson.’ *
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Southland Times, Issue 19294, 12 July 1924, Page 9
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60Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Issue 19294, 12 July 1924, Page 9
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