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...story of Moses in Egypt. A rifle sounds. The lights flash back to the cotton field. The chorus sings "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen'' against a mounting counterpoint of cannon roar. "John Brown's Body" alternates with "Dixie." A clash of cymbals brings sudden silence. A Negro Abraham Lincoln reads excerpts from the Emancipation Proclamation. From the cotton fields the crouching figures straighten up to sing ''Rise, Shine, Give God the Glory...
...absence. When he returned there was nothing left standing save three of those offices' outer walls, and during his first night in the White House he slept to the tattoo of pneumatic drills demolishing one of the remaining walls. His desk was set in the Oval Room, where Abraham Lincoln's once stood. There he settled down to attack the great problem he had seen with his own eyes, the grim reality of Drought...
...Joshua Abraham Norton, an English Jew, came to San Francisco from South Africa during the '49 gold rush. In 1853 he and a partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part...
...night last week the square, bare, whitewashed auditorium in the basement of a dingy old brownstone building on Manhattan's Astor Place was jampacked with friends, families and seniors of Cooper Union. Watching them from the old-fashioned wooden platform sat the school dignitaries. Abraham Lincoln had stood on that platform to deliver his famed campaign speech in 1860. Now another tall, bearded man, Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, potent industrialist and president of Cooper Union's Board of Trustees, uprose to warn the seniors to work hard and be modest. Then he started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen...
...Ryan auction by canny Lord Duveen of Millbank who bid $102,500 for a marble bust of a Princess of Aragon by Francesco Laurana, 15th Century Florentine. Highest literary item was Francis Scott Key's manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner," sold for $24,000 to Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach as agent for Baltimore's Walters Art Gallery. Anders Zorn's The Toast, of which exist only 75 impressions, was the most expensive etching...