Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works as a "radio reporter" for National Broadcasting Co.He arranged with Hoover Secretary Joslin, chief humanizer. to spend a day about the White House, interview the President. Reporter Williams arrived at 7:45 a. m., talked with the President for 20 min., roamed about the house, sat in the Lincoln study, played with the six presidential dogs, watched the Hoover grandchildren from a distance, departed at 6 p. m. Last week in a "folksy" broadcast of his experiences, he declared: "Within the White House you can hear the shrill, excited laughter of little children. What if their grandfather...
...Along with many another notable, President Hoover last week sent a congratulatory letter to William C. Creamer, octogenarian silk salesman of Manhattan's Arnold, Constable & Co. Salesman Creamer remembers selling silk by the yard to Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Mrs. Ulysses Simpson Grant, recalls seeing Theodore Roosevelt brought to the store by his mother...
First 150's: Stroke, Donough Prince '31; 7, Alexander Lincoln '32; 6, G. F. Lombard '33; 5, John Wiggins '33; 4, J. B. Gilbert '33; 3, Harper Woodward '31; 2, C. C. Campbell '33; Bow, C. C. Perry '31 '31; Cox, L. E. Becker...
...When it was announced that I was writing the life of Carl Laemmle," says John Drinkwater, "a number of anxious critics asked, Why? . . . Wasn't that a very odd thing for the biographer of Lincoln, Lee, Byron, and the rest, to do?'' If you postpone asking this question yourself until after reading this Horatio-Algeresque biography, you may still feel like asking it?unless you think the answer is obvious. From Mr. Laemmle's point of view, of course, there was nothing "odd" about it. People hire artists to paint their portraits, don't they...
...cinema, thinks it "not without significance" that ''John Drinkwater, the distinguished dramatic poet . . . should have turned to industry for a new subject." Originally in the insurance business, John Drinkwater first attracted England's attention as a poet, then wrote plays in verse, then in prose. Some of them: Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Alary Stuart. He has also written biographies: Mr. Charles, King of England, The Pilgrim of Eternity...