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...Abraham's Bosom (Thurs. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue). Pulitzer Prize tragedy, depicting a Negro's struggle for education...
...only has this party dictated the writing of this history, but it has dictated the rewriting of American history prior to 1860 so as to make a grandstand entrance for Abraham Lincoln as first President...
Shortly before San Marino's 13,948 inhabitants elected a 100% Fascist Council, their Government had made a democratic gesture. The Republic issued a three-lire and a five-lire Abraham Lincoln postage stamp. Below democratic "Honest Abe's" profile was reproduced a part of a letter he sent to San Marino in 1861: "Although your dominion is small your state is nevertheless one of the most honored in all history." President Lincoln thereafter became Honorary Citizen No. 1 of San Marino...
Last week television took one step forward and two back. In New York City, Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. Inc. and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Inc. advertised American Television Corp. receiving sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...
Unhappiest experience occurred to Abraham & Straus, where preliminary tests brought a belated discovery that NBC is broadcasting its pictures only northward of the Empire State Building. So Brooklynites were given admission cards to an A. T. C. demonstration in Manhattan. There 500 guests crowded into a small room to try to watch an hour show of film and live talent on a bright green screen, five inches square. Many strained their eyes so badly that they left the show seeing pink spots...