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...COLLECTED WORKS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN (8 vols. Index to come)-Roy P. Basler, Editor...
This week's Lincoln book is 4,452 pages long and most of it is written by Abraham Lincoln himself. The first jotting is a rhyme probably not original with the teen-age writer...
...Abraham Lincoln...
Between the first and last Lincoln autographs, there were thousands of letters, speeches, business notes and miscellaneous jottings. In 1924 a group of Lincoln enthusiasts known as the Abraham Lincoln Association dedicated themselves to the staggering task of tracing down every scrap. Now with the publication of The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (in 3.300 sets-1,000 sold before publication), they consider the job 99% complete. The missing 1%: items owned by holdouts who refuse to cooperate, a few papers that have turned up since the work was printed and whatever (perhaps) may turn up in the future. Satisfied...
...early November, just before the Committee adjourned, Trygve Lie resigned. Senator McCarran was quick to read this as the results of the "disclosures of the Committee." And only three days later, on November 14, Abraham H. Feller, the U.N.'s legal counsel, tore himself from his wife's grasp to leap from his twelve story apartment window...