Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Producer Zanuck got his idea for this picture from TIME'S story on the life of the Maryland physician who served a prison term for doctoring John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 4 & March 18). *"Annie Oakleys'' arc so called because holes are usually punched in them to prevent their being sold...
...Lincoln Kirstein at 28 is a tall, tense, bold-faced esthete, rich because his father is vice president of Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard (class of 1930) young Lincoln Kirstein and Edward Warburg, another rich man's son, started a Society for Contemporary Art, exhibited painting, sculpture, photography. As an undergraduate Kirstein founded the magazine Hound & Horn, kept it intellectually alive until 1934 when dancing became his dominant interest. With Edward Warburg, Kirstein then founded the School of American Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky...
...notables from miles around. Immediate reason for the celebration was that workmen had just finished 28 miles of new concrete road. More significant: Nebraska at last had a paved road running from one end of its 460-mi. length to the other. Most significant: The last link in the Lincoln Highway had been completed, giving the U. S. its first transcontinental hard-surfaced road. Now known as "U. S. Route 30" most of the way from Atlantic City to Oakland, the Lincoln Highway was conceived by Promoter Carl Fisher early in the Century. Packard's onetime President Henry Bourne...
...suggested, but public opinion has been quite definitely on the other side. One would, of course, like to think that the appointment is a case of "post hoc sed non propter hoc," and this thesis is just about as sincere as Mussolini's recent self-appointment as the Abraham Lincoln of the dark continent...
...Manhattan showrooms, and hotels- however, Ford exhibited the confirmation of a perennial rumor-a medium-priced Ford product. Not a glorified Ford but a completely new car from the Lincoln plants, it was named the Lincoln-Zephyr. Powered with a V12 engine, it is currently made in only two models, a two-door sedan at $1,275 and a four-door at $1,320. Its body construction, like that of the closed Cord models, stems straight from Walter P. Chrysler's adventures in aerodynamics: like the Airflow Chryslers and De Sotos, the Zephyr has no conventional frame; wheels, engine...