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...Money Itch. William Jaird Levitt never planned to be a builder; he just drifted into it. Born in Brooklyn in 1907, he grew up in an argumentative family, and in that atmosphere his self-confidence waxed mightily. His father, Abraham, was a lawyer who used to spend summer nights lecturing to Bill and his younger brother Alfred on everything from art to the Dodgers. Bill, the family extravert, liked the baseball lectures; Alfred, shy and retiring, preferred those...
...Other illustrious descendants of John and Abigail: grandson Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's Civil War minister to the Court of St. James's; great-grandsons Henry Adams and Brooks Adams, historians; great-great-grandson Charles Francis Adams III, yachtsman, banker, and Secretary of the Navy...
...bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed-or so distressed the comfortable . . . Certainly not the bitterest foe of her political party or of her personal ideologies can deny that since Abraham Lincoln no one has done more to lift the hearts and raise the heads of the Negro people...
...resignation was accepted by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. The path of West Pointer Davis had already crossed that of another coming man: in the Black Hawk War (1832), where he served as a lieutenant of regulars, Davis had administered the oath of allegiance to Captain-of-Volunteers Abraham Lincoln...
...lower New England region, Phyllis Bodel, of Lakeville, Conn, and the Emma Willard School; Middle Atlantic States, Marilya Cornelius, of Altoona, Pa. and the Altoona High School; Upper South, Elizabeth Eilers, of Washington, D. C. and Central High School; Middle-West, Patricia Jasper, of Council Bluffs, Iowa and the Abraham Lincoln High School; and Lower South, Barbara Shaw, of Atlanta, Ga. and the North Fulton High School...