Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiercely partisan Southern Democrat, Martha Truman had a tart opinion on almost everything. Her friends fondly called her "the old rebel," and shamelessly embroidered a tale of how she had said she would sleep on the floor rather than occupy the White House bed that Yankee Abraham Lincoln had slept...
Americans who shared the dream of a new Asia could, in a troublous week, remember how Hamilton and Lincoln died, and how laden with hatred were the decades in which the American dream took shape...
Slender, faun-faced Dancer Weidman, 46, is the son of a Lincoln, Neb. fireman. He joined Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis famed Denishawn group in 1920. On a tour of the Orient with them, it suddenly came over him how absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
...Light on Lincoln (Sat. 3:30 p.m., CBS). A CBS Documentary Unit broadcast based on the unsealing (21 years after the death of Robert Todd Lincoln) of Lincoln's state papers. Speakers: Carl Sandburg; Illinois State Historian Jay Monaghan; University of Illinois Professor J. G. Randall; Director of the Chicago Historical Society Paul M. Angle; and Librarian of Congress Luther Evans...
Among his most cherished recollections is that of watching Abraham Lincoln take the oath of inauguration at the beginning of his first term as President in 1861. He was but 15 years old at the time...