A most fortunate old gentleman is tall, chin-whiskered Laurence Vincent ("Larry") Benet. Son of a brigadier general with the Union Army in the Civil War, he was born at West Point 71 years ago and schooled at Washington's famed old Emerson Institute and at Yale. In 1885 he went to Paris as a bright young engineer with La Societé Hotchkiss & Cie and has lived there ever since. His gracious wife Margaret was one of the Cox sisters of old Georgetown; Larry Benet married her after he returned as an ensign from the...
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