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...rush was on. In the rush, A. F. of L. brother fought C. I. O. brother. To rule between hard-boiled employers and hard-boiled union chiefs, NLRB sent many a radical young theorist, many an idealist who saw everything in black (employers) & white (workers). No Abraham Lincoln was on hand to design a just and tolerant reconstruction. The carpetbaggers swarmed in, and the night riders. NLRB ruled with a high hand and little regard for feelings. Soon businessmen big & little who agreed on nothing else agreed in hatred of NLRB. Congress began to feel the way the wind...
...took 75 years for the Lincoln legend to develop to the point where playing Abraham Lincoln (in Abe Lincoln in Illi nois) could be a peak in the career of an actor like Raymond Massey. The Edison legend is just beginning in the movies which Edison invented. What the rest of the legend would be like depended in part on who interpreted the first installment...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...
...books have been given since 1712. Among the awards this year were Professor Kitredge's edition of Shakspere; Morison's "Three Centuries of Harvard"; Spengler's "Decline of the West"; Craven's "Art Masterpieces"; and Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years...
Last week, over 92 NBC-Blue stations, Cavalcade put on its most ambitious radio venture to date-a half-hour digest of Carl Sandburg's packed, four-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Gangling Playwright Robert E. Sherwood wrote the script, Lincolnesque Raymond Massey, in Chicago playing Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, read the lead. The radio version was an episodic but surprisingly well-linked Lincoln cycle, from Springfield in a stovepipe hat (1861) back to Springfield in a cortege...