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Seven dusky members of the cast who are on the ERA dramatic payroll were unexpectedly booked for a showing of Macbeth at the Abraham Lincoln High School in Cambridge earlier in the evening...
...Abraham Lazard Shushan was also the Senator's true-blue friend. It was he who rushed from the death bed with the first news of his chief's passing: "Huey's dead. It's terrible!" But Colonel Shushan, drygoods merchant, president of the New Orleans Levee Board and builder of one of the biggest, most expensive ($4,000,000) and most useless airports in the world for his personal glorification, was not destined to figure largely in the Long inheritance. Like Oscar Allen, his chief service to the Kingfish...
...Hampshire's young (46) Governor John Gilbert (''Gil") Winant had been born of rich parents in New York City, educated at swank St. Paul's and Princeton. But he looked like a young Abraham Lincoln - gaunt, awkward frame, unruly hair, deep-set eyes - and like Lincoln he loved the common people. He was a liberal, an idealist, a student of government and sociology, a stanch friend of Labor. On the platform, however, the only man in 100 years to be elected Governor of New Hampshire three times proved to be a halting, colorless speaker who, unlike...
Robert W. Bean, age 17, of 143 Baughnstreet, Council Bluffs, Ia. He attended Abraham Lincoln High School. He is the son of William E. Bean, cashier for the Omaha branch of the John Deere Plow Company. He ranked first in his class in scholarship. He was active in debating, dramatics, the glee club, the Latin club, and the literary society, and was a cadet captain in the R. O. T. C. He won first place in the Iowa State extemporaneous speaking contest, first place in the University of South Dakota interstate oratorical contest for students in Iowa, Nebraska, and South...
Joseph Boggs Beale was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, General John Hancock, many another bigwig. Yet elderly Philadelphians last week could remember but one political story connected with him. When James A. Garfield was offered the Republican nomination against Winfield Hancock in 1880, he wrote to his mother asking her advice. The Professor was having a dish of tea at the Garfield home when the letter arrived...