Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Drinkwater, 54, British poet & playwright; in his sleep, of a heart attack possibly induced by excitement over the Oxford-Cambridge boat race; in London. He subsisted as an insurance man until he persuaded a rich young friend, Barry Jackson, to back his play Abraham Lincoln. At his death Playwright Drinkwater had completed The King's People, a film to be released at the Coronation starring George Bernard Shaw, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lady Astor, himself...
Deserting his early career in law in 1880, Morse who lived in Needham became wolf-known in literary circles with his biographies of Lincoln, Hamilton, and Franklin. Rogers continued to be a lawyer in Boston throughout his life, going regularly to his office until last Tuesday. By his own admission he lived by the motto: "He who lives moderately, lives a long time...
...LINCOLN FISHER...
...LINCOLN MURDERED?-Otto Eisenschiml-Little, Brown ($3.50). It may have been Booth's idea, says Author Eisenschiml, but it was Secretary of War Stanton's curious negligence in protecting Lincoln that was really responsible for the murder...
...MIGHTY TORRENT-Edgar Johnson -Stackpole ($3.50). A book about biography, interpreting with "bold emphasis and omission" the development of English biography down to Lincoln Steffens' Autobiography...