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Shortly before she left Germany, she received a visit from two Hitler Youths, ardent Nazis of the year before. They said they wanted to ski over into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmurous Germany | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...working hours in Hollywood are terrible. When I was making 'Abraham Lincoln,' we started work at nine in the morning and worked straight through to six, grinding all the while," he continued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Huston Condemns Hollywood's Long Hours, Easy Money for Actors | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...have watched more dramatic history in the making than John Hay. At 22 this spirited, sharp-eyed son of an Illinois doctor became assistant to Abraham Lincoln's wartime private secretary, John G. Nicolay. An adept in handling cranks and job-hunters, a shrewd political observer, personable, sympathetic, young Hay quickly rose in Lincoln's esteem, went everywhere in wartime Washington, missed little. He shared a room in the White House with his good friend Nicolay, held many a nightshirt conversation with the "Ancient," or the "Tycoon," as he nicknamed Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lucky Diarist | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Walker Galleries showed affectionately executed portraits by Durr Freedley, a quiet semiprofessional in the precise New England line, who died last year at Lexington, Mass. Most spirited post-Picasso lyricism of the season appeared at the Julien Levy Gallery in canvases by softspoken, curly-locked Abraham Rattner, who has lived in Paris since the War. A new C. I. O. sculptors' union exhibited honest work, good & bad, at the New School for Social Research. But best bets for seekers of reposeful pleasure were two showings by older U. S. artists whose work kept pace with their reputations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Midseason | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...extensive collection of French newspapers, relating to the Dreyfus Case was presented by Lee M. Friedman, of Boston, and has been photographed on micro-film to insure its preservation. Another gift was an army commission, dated 1862, signed by Abraham Lincoln...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: METCALFE REPORTS 80,000 NEW BOOKS WENT TO LEBRARY | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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