Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baer two years ago. In his Harlem apartment, a reporter asked Louis how he liked being married. Said "The Brown Embalmer",* ''One night is not enough to tell." His plans included a world tour, a Chicago apartment home, one fight a month, a chauffeur for the Lincoln car he gave his wife for a wedding present, a bout with Max Schmeling next June, another with Champion James J. Braddock next September...
...opinion, Roscoe Pound's greatest gift is his "flypaper memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he disrupted a Sunday-School contest for memorizers of Bible verses by rattling them off by the chapter after one reading. Years later the members of a Neighborhood Club in Belmont, Mass., who met weekly to hear a paper by one of their number, were nonplussed by Member Pound's habit of arising after each paper, no matter what the subject, to give a more authoritative treatment. His particular interests are botany, Freemasonry, military history of the Civil...
Roscoe Pound was 12 when he entered the University of Nebraska. Husky and fast, he played football and baseball, formed a habit, which he kept up until a decade ago, of trotting one mile each day. After graduation and a year at Harvard Law School, he worked in a Lincoln law office a few years until one day his employer called him in, said: "Roscoe, you know enough law. Go see the county bar examiner. And take along a box of cigars." The examiner opened the box of cigars, noted that they were his favorite brand, reflected: "Well, Roscoe...
...publishing office, on the staff of Travel Magazine, was an executive editor of The New Yorker, a member of the staff of FORTUNE, now does free-lance writing. A respected poet in his own right, he married Poetess Louise Bogan in 1925, is the author of a biography of Lincoln and of two detective stories which were published under a carefully-guarded pseudonym...
...strength of the song, Coy Poe, a fellow Delt, and Pinky started for Hollywood in an old Ford. A few months later they bought a Lincoln and took a vacation trip. Pinky needed it. He had just finished his first acting--in M. G. M.'s Times Square Lady. He has since made Smart Girl. M. G. M. is going to keep him at acting for some time to come; and when he's out of greasepaint, M. G. M is chaining their hog-caller and actor to a piano...