Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When they found the whiskey they explained, a little sheepishly, that they had mistaken Hass's 1940 Lincoln coupe for the car of an out-of-state bootlegger. They were sorry for Hass, they said, but they hauled him before a county judge, who confiscated his car, his liquor and fined...
...wholly unprecedented face. But it was soon clear also that Peck was no carbon copy, but a distinct and engaging new personality. He has a face which Mary Morris of PM has aptly described as "early American." It can, of course, be dangerous to look enough like Abraham Lincoln to suffer by comparison or to seem to be plagiarizing. At certain unfortunate moments Peck looks merely like a pretty Lincoln; but he never looks like a silly one, a road-show impersonator, or a sandwich man for the Republican Party...
...upholstered cellars came Funnyman Danny Thomas to make his big pitch at radio. What with his howling nightclub fans and his recent success in MGM's Unfinished Dance, his pink stucco Hollywood house and his red Lincoln, Thomas is already so well equipped that he is not too nervous over the success of his new radio show (Fri. 8:30 p.m., E.S.T., CBS). On the air last week, radio listeners lost some of the Thomas appeal that nightclubbers admire: the calflike face, the eloquent hands, the prehensile nose ("If you're going to have a nose," he challenges...
...Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade...
...more frequent on U.S. bookshelves were new books about American heroes, past & present. There was the usual swelling of Lincolniana. The most compact was Paul Angle's The Lincoln Reader, the most controversial was J. G. Randall's Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman. The other myth amaking, the Roosevelt myth, was being shaped by varied hands, including F.D.R.'s bodyguard. Son Elliott edited a fat volume of his father's letters written between the ages of five and 22, and the President's Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor, brought out the platitudinous Wartime Correspondence Between President...