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...could have sworn Koerner's cover showed Abraham Lincoln sleepwalking. My apologies to the handsome Mr. Bernstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

When the moviemakers are through polishing up the brass, they tell the story of Bernie Goldsmith (Ernest Borgnine)-which is substantially that of Abraham Chasanow. After 22 years of governmental service. Goldsmith is abruptly suspended as a security risk. When the whispering campaign gets going, he is shunned by his neighbors as a Communist, but his friends rally round and. as a studio release somewhat mysteriously explains, "risk public approbation to defend his name." When his lawyer (Ray Milland) wins a hearing several months later, Goldsmith wins a recommendation for reinstatement. Ruling overruled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1957 | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Republican leaders in the state's General Assembly are preparing for a fight with Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff over his anti-speeding campaign on Connecticut highways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republicans Advocate Mitigating Connecticut Anti-Speed Campaign | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...greatest fault of modern education is the failure to develop the sense of wonder and awe which is "the beginning of faith," Abraham J. Heschel, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary said last night in the final Israel Goldman Memorial Lecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jewish Mystic Contends Modern Education Needs 'Sense of Awe' | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Died. Benjamin Platt Thomas, 54, Lincoln scholar, whose Abraham Lincoln (1952) was generally considered the best modern one-volume biography of the President; by his own hand (revolver) during a period of depression caused by throat cancer; in Springfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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