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...Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy with an indiscretion no less dramatic. Climaxing a rhetorical eulogy of famed Rebel Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Lamar said: "Let the world know the wisdom, the kindness, the justice of the great and only President of the Confederate States of America-Abraham Lincoln...
Unless they can ring in a few home run hitters for the afternoon, the Crimson players don't expect too much. They are facing strong opposition, led by Disraeli, Abraham Sofaer, a spin bowler of recognized ability, who packs his cricket utensils with him when he travels with his company...
Lemon. Another who in youth tried his hand at business (insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields...
High above the pine slopes of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore one day last week a great U. S. flag slowly furled, disclosing the stone carved face of Abraham Lincoln as it would have appeared had that President been 465 ft. tall. Measuring 66 ft. from chin to crown, Lincoln's was the third face to be unveiled in Mountain Carver Gutzon Borglum's huge and heroic Mount Rushmore Memorial. George Washington's was dedicated in 1927 at ceremonies attended by President Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's last year before President Roosevelt. Last week the chief...
...assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition (biggest since 1846) was not divulged. Nothing official was said about the embarrassing subject, but it was unofficially felt that Thomas James Wise had paid his forger's debt in full...