Word: abe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomat husband.) The "visitors" of the title -Americans and Britons engaged in the black art of propaganda-never had it so good. Larry Purdoe is editor of the Voice of Britain, his assistant is a non-U type called Herbert Wragg, and their American friend is a newspaperman named Abe Schulman ("definitely a good type"). They have the whisky, the candy, the penicillin and the supreme good luck of not being totally at the mercy of the people's police...
Visiting Abilene's Eisenhower Museum, he spotted Army Nurse Major Florence Judd, who had looked after him following his ileitis operation in 1956. He recalled without being reminded that she had been transferred from Washington to nearby Fort Riley. A boyhood friend, Abe Forney, who had worked with Ike hauling ice at Belle Springs Creamery, came up, told Ike how well he looked. The President wagged his head and said, "If I can live two more years . . .", let his voice trail off. Said Abe Forney: "You will...
...notorious Milton began his career innocuously enough. Born in upstate New York on July 19, 1830, he taught school in Michigan, later practiced law in Illinois. An early Lincoln partisan (his younger brother John worked in the Lincoln-Herndon law office in Springfield), Milton reputedly hoisted Honest Abe onto the crowd's shoulders at one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, while The Rail Splitter protested: "Don't. Don't. This is ridiculous." After captaining one of the quasi-military Republican abolitionist outfits known as the "Wide Awakes," Milton marched away to the Civil War as a volunteer...
...Darling (by Richard and Marian Bissell and Abe Burrows; songs by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green) is a sort of part-time musical made from a book (Say, Darling) that described how a big-time musical was made from a book (7? Cents). This carrying The Pajama Game into extra innings works out fairly agreeably on the whole. Compared to its bookform pokes at show business, Say, Darling is now using a softball. But as a popular-entertainment monkeyshine on the making of musicals, and as the decidedly unspiritual autobiography of a fledgling librettist, the show bumps...
...them: a draft of a letter from Lincoln to an Illinois friend concerning the merits of re-electing a Congressman, Richard Yates, later governor of Illinois. The malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote depend absolutely upon the question of whether a candidate does or does not taste liquor...