Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chat with Lincoln Biographer Carl Sandburg, who reported the President "looks like he's standing the racket well...
...front of St. Paul's Cathedral. Along Detroit's Woodward Ave., the curious hung out of windows, perched on roofs and climbed the trees to get a better view. At the cathedral's entrance, the limousines disgorged the auto city's great. From a maroon Lincoln limousine, Clara Bryant Ford stepped out, leaning on the arm of her grandson, Henry. Inside St. Paul's, in a sealed casket, lay the pinch-faced, fragile remains of her husband...
...with which she bought peanut seed, making a profit on the crop. Afterwards he built a Gothic quadrangle for her school, spending millions. He loved and collected the relics of the old, slow age which he had destroyed. In his Greenfield Village near Dearborn, he lovingly set up Abraham Lincoln's courthouse and the Menlo Park workshop of his hero, Thomas Edison. He filled his museum with stage coaches, buggies, prairie schooners, old furniture, old tools, old junk...
...Last fall, when Jimmy Durante guested on the Ford Show, he was offered a Ford and a Mercury in payment. Though "mortified to dwell upon the thought" that there were three grades of guest stars on the market (Ford, Mercury, Lincoln-Continental), Jimmy insisted that he be known as the Continental type. The sponsor yielded...
Gilman chose for his reading a passage from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body," Projecting himself admirably into the part of Abraham Lincoln, he managed to put across effectively a restrained, yet highly emotional selection...