Word: abraham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Common Heritage (16 sides, $10) Bing Crosby, Walter Huston, Fredric March, Pat O'Brien, Brian Donlevy and Agnes Moorehead recite (with background music) American poems and anthems that mark milestones of U.S. history. Best of the lot: Walter Huston's recitation of Vachel Lindsay's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight and Agnes Moorehead's reading of Rosemary Benet's Nancy Hanks...
...with which she bought peanut seed, making a profit on the crop. Afterwards he built a Gothic quadrangle for her school, spending millions. He loved and collected the relics of the old, slow age which he had destroyed. In his Greenfield Village near Dearborn, he lovingly set up Abraham Lincoln's courthouse and the Menlo Park workshop of his hero, Thomas Edison. He filled his museum with stage coaches, buggies, prairie schooners, old furniture, old tools, old junk...
Miller's own watercolors are full of gabled doors, heavenly bodies (he believes in astrology), female sex symbols, eyes("I'm not perverse, but the idea of looking through a keyhole . . . fascinates me"), and echoes of Paul Klee and Abraham Rattner...
...first of a series of forums on the United Nations, the discussion on "How Strong is the U. N.?" was moderated by Milton Katz '27, Professor of Law. Abraham H. Feller, general counsel to the United Nations was the third speaker...
Gilman chose for his reading a passage from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body," Projecting himself admirably into the part of Abraham Lincoln, he managed to put across effectively a restrained, yet highly emotional selection...