Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such slick tricks as its new records, S. & S. feels sure that it will weather the storm now buffeting bookmen. S. & S.'s two guiding heads, tall, affable Richard L. Simon, 49, and intense, hard-driving M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster, 51, are a formidable team, bubbling with ideas. In the words of one associate: "Max gets an average of 80 ideas a day; at least one a month is superlative...
Lanny Budd, like Vincent Sheean and John Gunther, meets all the great people of the world; he races about the continent of Europe on secret missions for President Roosevelt, like Harry Hopkins and Robert D. Murphy; he broods about the decay of contemporary civilization, like Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens; he foresees what is going to happen with uncanny clairvoyance and advises people, especially President Roosevelt, with such telling effect that they come to depend on him for most of their information; he is always on the scene when great events are in the making-in Paris...
...Steers. During his 24 hours in Springfield and environs, he caused little stir, was not asked for a single autograph. At the reconstructed Lincoln village at New Salem, the head guide asked politely: "And where are you a Senator from, Mr.-er-Barkley, wasn...
...James Walls, 47-year-old Negro laborer employed at Washington's Lincoln Memorial, hanged himself in the monument's basement...
...many from owners who could not keep up the payments), Rochester (N.Y.) lots were buying cars for $100 to $300 less than a month ago, despite new markups at the factories. On Detroit's Livernois Avenue, center of the used-car market, one dealer offered a month-old Lincoln coupé, which he bought for $3,559, for $3,350-with no takers...