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During Manhattan's bitter, bloody garment strike of 1913, a crowd of angry strikers hurled bricks through the windows of the Jewish Daily Forward, which was urging a settlement. Nervy, frail Editor Abraham ("Ab") Cahan, who had done as much as any man to stir the workers' rebellion against the sweatshops, came out to face the crowd. "Whose windows do tailors come to break?" he demanded. "It's just like a husband who comes home angry and fretful ... whacks the kids around and smashes dishes . . . Will he go into any other house to smash the dishes...
...show opens with a child actor wishing he could be some character in fact or fiction. No sooner said than done: with Mr. L's "magic" intervention he becomes Abraham Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created...
Mark died at last in 1865, shot by a guard in the alley back of Ford's Theater when he tried to rush in to stop the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...
...faith held by the Bible-centered Witnesses is concrete and uncompromising. Jehovah's first Witness, they believe, was Abel. Noah, Abraham, Moses, et al. continued the line to the "Chief Witness" -Jesus Christ. According to Witness calculations, Christ did not establish His Kingdom until 1914. Since the Bible says that some who are alive when Christ enters His Kingdom will see the end of this world, it is clear to Witnesses that it is likely to happen any day now. Obviously then, the most important thing that a man can do is scramble onto the right side...
...Cliffwood, NJ. one day last week, FBI agents walked into the Ulster Chemicals Co. plant (four employees), there arrested the owner, Abraham Brothman, 36, and a blonde, comely colleague, Miriam Moskowitz. FBI officials identified the pair as two more links in the Soviet atomic spy chain which the U.S. started to unreel early this year after the arrest of the British atomic scientist, Dr. Klaus Fuchs...