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...DIED. ABRAHAM POLONSKY, 88, film-noir screenwriter and director who was blacklisted for nearly 20 years for refusing to name names at the height of McCarthy hysteria; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Polonsky, who won an Oscar nomination for the 1947 boxing film Body and Soul, continued to work in Hollywood pseudonymously...
...want to try something similar. After all, candidates are always trying to link themselves to great leaders of the past. Why not cut out the middlemen? Given the pace of scientific progress, plus sufficiently audacious party leaders, the presidential debates of 2044 could feature some pretty impressive lineups. Imagine Abraham Lincoln taking on F.D.R. Or J.F.K. going up against Thomas Jefferson. Or Millard Fillmore vs. Warren Harding...
Heimert arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate in 1945. He wrote his senior thesis on Abraham Lincoln, a subject he returned to last year in an undergraduate seminar...
Last year, Heimert taught an Eliot House Seminar on Abraham Lincoln fall semester and a seminar on Puritan America in the spring...
...million Total amount Abraham Lincoln spent on his 1860 election campaign, in 1999 dollars...