Word: abraham
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This year's concert was exemplary on all counts. The light pieces, such as the folk-song arrangements, were not trivial. The modern works showed effective vocal writing, especially Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Fenno Heath, conductor of the Yale Glee Club. The selections from Mozart's Zauberflote provided music which was almost so profound as to be out of place. And there were, of course, the football songs, about which any commentary would be superfluous, if not sacrilegious...
Connecticut: In a record-busting burst of bipartisanship, voters handed Incumbent Abraham Ribicoff, 48, the biggest plurality for a Democrat in state history -and his second term...
Overwhelming their Republican opponents Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff won re-election, Thomas J. Dodd toppled incumbent Senator William A. Purtell and Chester Bowles captured a Republican Congressional seat. Ribicoff piled up a 610,000 plurality...
...cities and towns in handshaking campaigns. Eisenhower Republican Purtell points to his voting record, hits hard at union bossism. Middle-Road Democrat Dodd criticizes Republican foreign policy, has strong support from labor's Committee on Political Education. The outcome may hinge on the size of Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff's re-election victory...
...voting booths that demonstrated the U.S. secret ballot to visitors at the Brussels World's Fair, some 200,000 popularity votes were cast by a poly-national assortment of voters who named their American favorites. Statesman: Abraham Lincoln. Actress: Kim Novak (who drew more than twice as many votes as second-running Marilyn Monroe). University: Harvard. Musician: Louis Armstrong. Most Important Immigrant to the U.S.: Albert Einstsin, distantly followed by Thomas Mann...