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...nearly wiped out the 2,500 Confederates first. Readers North and South may be startled by Author Street's account of the sordidness, trickery, confusion and coldheartedness with which the most romanced-about of wars began, and by the role which he assigns to that "Machiavelli in homespun," Abraham Lincoln, in touching...
...Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. . . . And the Lord remembered Sarah as He had said. . . . And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age.-Genesis...
Explanation. In Brooklyn, two holdup men tried to rob deaf Abraham Markowitz of $200. He shouted. They shouted. People began to gather. The bandits fled without the money...
...Died. Abraham Epstein, 50, longtime fighter for social security; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Credited with being the strongest single influence in the U.S. on the trend of public opinion toward the adoption of social security legislation, he had been writing, organizing, talking, lobbying for his ideas for almost 20 years, before the Federal Social Security Act was passed...
Three composers went to work on a job usually reserved for painters. Aaron Copland dug into a Modern Library version of Abraham Lincoln's life and letters, and tried to write down his impressions in music. Jerome Kern thumbed through his Mark Twain first editions and manuscripts in his Beverly Hills library. Virgil Thomson spent two hours in Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia's City Hall office in Manhattan, watched and jotted down music while the Mayor received visitors. He also spent a morning in Pundit Dorothy Thompson's library while she read and, after her fashion, meditated...