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...however, and must also overcome the handicap of being a "bedroom" resident of the state (his home is in Greenwich, but his business is in New York). Ribicoff's backers are incensed because of what they term Bush's anti-Semitic innuendos; he constantly refers to his opponent as "Abraham" or "Abe Ribicoff." The charge is at best a tenuous...
When Howard Hughes sold control of RKO four weeks ago, the buyers promised to clean out the company from stagehands on up. They did, lopping off a batch of executives and underlings. Heading the new cast of characters were President Ralph Stolkin, 34, and his father-in-law, Abraham L. Koolish, 60, a member of the board. Chicagoans Stolkin and Koolish had put up 40% of the down payment* made by their five-man syndicate...
...Geoffrey D. Bush '50, of Cambridge; Robert P. Davis '47, of Dorchester, Mass; Burton S. Dreben '50; Abraham Klein of Cambridge; James A. Kritzeck of Saint Cloud, Minn.; Gordon J. F. MacDonald '50, of Cambridge; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Jr. of Cambridge; George C. Soulis of Athens, Greece; and William H. Telfer of Portland, Oregon...
...newspapers last week appeared an 89-year-old photograph that was bound to start a historical argument. Is the tall man in the stovepipe hat (see cut) Abraham Lincoln? Historians have always supposed that Abraham Lincoln was not photographed in November 1863 during his address at Gettysburg, Pa. or on his way there. But the Western Maryland Railway, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, dug out of the National Archives a picture which it believes shows Lincoln on his way to Gettysburg. The picture had gone unnoticed because it was labeled wrongly. Miss Josephine Cobb, photo chief of the National...
After a 4½-hour talk with the presidential nominee, Shivers came out smiling. He was going to visit around town for a while, might eyen take a look at Abraham Lincoln's tomb, while Stevenson made up his mind about tidelands. After visiting the office of a Texas insurance man (he never got to the tomb), Shivers returned to get Stevenson's final word...