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TWENTY DAYS by Dorofhy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. 312 pages. Harper...
Twenty Days covers the period from the moment Lincoln fell mortally wounded to the time his body was laid to rest at Springfield. Authors Dorothy and Philip Kunhardt are mother and son. Mrs. Kunhardt's father, the late Frederick Hill Meserve, devoted a lifetime to collecting photographs of Lincoln and his times. This famed collection was left to Mrs. Kunhardt, and she and Son Philip, who is an assistant managing editor of LIFE, spent years writing the text and winnowing out photographs. The result is a book of lively prose and telling pictures that historians will respect and journalists...
Lodge married Nancy Kunhardt of Morristown, New Jersey, in April of his junior year. But even after he moved out of the House, he remained a part of it, often eating there and participating in House life...
...Lodge, in proper Harvard fashion, in a class. "I met her in my short story course," he recalls. "She was brought there by a very good poet who has since become famous--I can't remember his name--and I accosted her and asked her to tea." Miss Kunhardt, a post-deb who was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1948, was then a student at the Graduate School of Education...
...Lodge has a striking physical resemblance to his father. While Teddy was becoming an extraverted Kennedy, Lodge was a childhood loner. "I kept pigeons and spent nearly all my free time sailing and fiddling with my boat by myself." In his junior year at Harvard, Lodge married pert Nancy Kunhardt, hauled her off on a month-long honeymoon cruise up the Maine coast to Canada in an open sailboat. When a hurricane whirled by, they anchored in the lee of a desolate island and ate clams for three days...