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...that Lincoln as a young man had serious, nearly fatal depressions. Down on his luck, Herndon didn't publish his book until 1889. It didn't reach many readers, but he caught plenty of flak. "It vilely distorts the image of an ideal statesman, patriot, and martyr," the Chicago Journal said of his book. "It clothes him in vulgarity and grossness. Its indecencies are spread like a curtain to hide the colossal proportions and the splendid purity of his character...
Your story on rising property values on a block of Chicago's North Wood Street reminded me of my grandfather, a Polish-Lithuanian immigrant who lived on North Wood and kept his money in the walls of his house rather than bank it. If he were alive, I'm sure he would be scolding my Uncle Adam for selling the property for a mere $22,000 a few years back. Who would have thought that reading an article about real estate would awaken such a flood of memories...
...most charitable construction that Mary Lincoln's friends can put on her strange course is that she is insane," wrote the Chicago Journal of the widow who, in the wake of her husband's assassination, had returned to Illinois in a state of conspicuous mourning that drew the opposite of public sympathy, particularly when she tried to raise money by selling off her fanciest clothes at auction. When Robert, the only one of her four sons whom she hadn't had to bury before his time, committed his aging mother to an asylum while taking control of her assets...
...including Lloyd's of London and Barclays Bank, use Video Arts films. The company, which has annual revenues of nearly $10 million, has distributors in 24 other countries, and its films have been dubbed into 13 languages, from Portuguese to Cantonese. Video Arts opened its first U.S. office, in Chicago, last January. It has 7,000 American clients. Among them: General Motors, 3M and Sheraton hotels. They rent Cleese's films for as much as $180 a week or buy them for about $650 each. Saks Fifth Avenue bought a copy of a popular film called If Looks Could Kill...
...menial work, instead of rejoining the world. If anything, the abuses she once suffered make her more vulnerable and touching. Yet she never seems pathetic, not as played by Matlin, who is a beautiful young woman and an actress of awesome gifts. Spotted playing a minor role in a Chicago revival of the play, she has an unusual talent for concentrating her emotions--and an audience's--in her signing. But there is something more here, an ironic intelligence, a fierce but not distancing wit, that the movies, with their famous ability to photograph thought, discover in very few performances...