Word: abraham
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...have the old men in TIME, Oct. 20. Now let us have some old women. Begin with me. My mother was 94 when she died. My grandfather was 94. His name was Cassius Marcellus Clay* and was Minister to Russia under Abraham Lincoln. I am 87 and have just published a book called From My Journal...
...Archbald, Pa. 71 Troychak, Dennis '59 T 21 6.2 208 Monessen, Pa. 72 Mika, John '60 T 20 6.3 231 Bethlehem, Pa. 73 Smith, Edgar '59 T 20 6.3 202 Doylestown, Pa. 74 Wolkowitz, Dick '60 T 20 5.11 220 Vineland, N.J. 76 Abraham, Louis '59 T 19 6.3 216 Hackensack, N.J. 77 Hordubay, Joseph '59 T 20 6.1 199 Windber, Pa. 78 Stubblebine, Edward '60 T 21 6.4 237 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 79 Yanus, Irwin '60 T 20 5.10 186 Shelton, Conn. 80 Greenawalt, Jon '59 E 20 6.2 193 Grand Rapids, Mich. 81 Berlinger, Barney...
...Democratic Presidents whose pictures he hung at a new party clubroom: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), over the protest of Adams' great-great-grandson that his forebear was a Republican precursor, and Andrew Johnson (1808-75), who was a War Democrat when he became Abraham Lincoln's Vice President. Discoursing further on his reading of history, Harry scaled down every U.S. schoolboy's image of the man who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!": "There was an old man here in Virginia who was a great orator, Patrick Henry, who did his best to defeat...
...alltime record of $2,186,800, easily surpassing last year's Lurcy sale in Manhattan, when 65 paintings racked up $1,708,500 (TIME, Nov. 18). But it had also distorted the art market beyond both sense and sensibility, made old masters seem bargains. Rubens' Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, just acquired by the National Gallery, was bought last year in London for a mere $92,400; El Greco's Christ Healing the Blind brought only...
Married. Alice Hay Wadsworth, 78, widow of New York Republican Senator (1915-27) and Representative (1933-51) James W. Wadsworth, daughter of John Hay, Abraham Lincoln's biographer and Secretary of State for both William Mc-Kinley and Theodore Roosevelt, mother of Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations James J. Wadsworth; and Jackson H. Boyd, 68, retired businessman; in Geneseo, N.Y. Among Mrs. Wadsworth's attendants: her daughter Evelyn, wife of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington...