Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politically, Crosby stands for nothing that could be identified with the principles of Jefferson or Lincoln...
Died. Herbert Wells Fay, 90, for 27 years custodian of Abraham Lincoln's tomb, known to scholars the world over for his extensive collection of Lincolniana (he had more than a million items); in Springfield...
...authority, I think I would say that Raymond Massey is giving the performance of his career in the title role. However, I have not seen Mr. Massey as Abraham Lincoln--his most famous role--so can only say that his other stage and screen characterizations have never impressed me as much as this one does. Playing two acts as an insane person is a trying test for any actor, and Mr. Massey does a really credible job of it. Miss Christians, as the wife, is hard, unrelenting, cruel; she acts the part with great subtlety and restraint. The excellence...
...more. In these days of double-bedded Nash and reinstituted Lincoln Continental, the lot of the itinerant student has been further eased by the completion of the New Haven by-pass. Wilbur Cross to Merritt, Merritt to Wilbur Cross, the agony of transition will now be a few painless moments of tunnels and parkways and scenic beauty...
...fountain−decayed hamburger, sour milk, mustard and vanilla−can never forget it. The same goes for a telephone booth. Must one be crowded into a cramped, unventilated closet, use a mouthpiece which has been breathed into by thousands of people? Why not a two-way loudspeaker instead? Lincoln Steffens advised his son, who was worrying about what remained to be done, that nobody had yet made a faucet that didn't leak. Well, it no longer leaks−but why not do something about the faucet itself? Is it necessary...