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...York's Communist Russian-language newspaper, Russky Golos, last week told volumes in one word. It was praising Lincoln's Gettysburg address, especially the "immortal thoughts" which it rendered "government of the people, from the people, and for the people...
...experience could be communicated, instead of having to be learned, it might be easier to write a Gettysburg Address, become President, or make a million dollars. But the more successful a man is, the simpler he makes it sound. Lord Beaverbrook, a success in his line, is no exception...
...volume of its kind since 1905-is the University of Arkansas' Roy P. Easier (The Lincoln Legend, etc.). All told, Editor Easier has transcribed, wherever possible from the original sources, some 250 speeches, letters and literary odds & ends. Many of the selections are obvious and familiar (the classic Gettysburg and Second Inaugural addresses, etc.); many are curious, little-known bits-such as Lincoln's grateful testimonial to a corncutter: "Dr. Zachariehas operated on my feet with great success, and considerable addition to my comfort...
...director's loveliest dream. Frank Sinatra is one of its hardest-working speakers. It can call on Gypsy Rose Lee to bare her navel and William Rose Benét to write a script. Lena Horne will sing at any rally and Walter Huston will recite the Gettysburg Address. Fredric March belongs, and so do Eddie Cantor, Charles Boyer, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton and Robert Young...
...went the twelve sturdiest of the Grand Army of the Republic's 84* surviving members. They needed their sturdiness. To G.A.R.'s ancients the raucous bedlam swirling around their chairs in the lobby of the Claypool Hotel was almost as terrifying as Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. But after 2,000 members of the Midwest Federation of Syrian Lebanon Clubs had packed up their tom-toms and left town, the old soldiers began to get attention...