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Next morning, after the cremation, Foster's ashes were ceremonially borne to Red Square by a bevy of Communism's best, including Soviet Cosmonaut Titov. The eulogists included "La Pasionaria" of the Spanish Civil War-Dolores Ibarruri, who recalled how Foster had helped recruit the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Republican army. Red China's Ambassador Liu Hsiao called Foster "the leader of the American working class," adding that "he had worked tirelessly to promote friendship between the peoples of China and the U.S.A...
...Cuban Refugee Emergency Center. A few with jobs have started returning their checks with touching letters of thanks, but so many newcomers need help that the $5,000,000 federal fund is disappearing rapidly. Last week Florida Governor Farris Bryant flew to Washington, asked Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff for $8,000,000 to help make up for the $9,909,000 his state has spent to school 10,000 Cuban children. ''This situation is visited upon Florida because of its geographical location, and is burdening Florida with a national problem.'' said Bryant. Ribicoff...
...July 28th issue of your magazine, the cinema reviewer, in commenting on my film, Francis of Assist, stated that I would have been capable of filming a biography of Abraham Lincoln without mentioning the Civil...
...Historical novelists seldom write in anger. In telling about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his killer, John Wilkes Booth, and the near-farcical trial of Booth's fellow "conspirators," Author Stacton is clearly angry, but not at Booth; shrewdly enough, he treats him with pitying contempt. His target is the injustice that was done not only to Booth's largely duped friends but to the murderer's family as a result of his tragically stupid and criminal...
...Civil War era, culminating last year with the first volume of his biography of Charles Summer. Charies Summer and the Coming of the Civil War traced the career of the fiery, antislavery Massachusetts Senator from his birth in 1311 up to 1861, when his party swept into power behind Abraham Lincoln. Donald was awarded the Pulitzer prize for the book...