<p><span class="deck"> Or, a dogged attempt to assemble a most remarkable company—the famous survivors of the battle lost by a British general on the Monongahela. Everybody who was anybody was there, from George Washington to Daniel Boone. Everybody, that is, but B. Gratz Brown</span> </p>
<p>A founder of the Algonquin Round Table and frequent writer for <em>The New Yorker</em> and <em>Vanity Fair</em>, Benchley influenced generations of humorists, from James Thurber to Dave Barry</p>
