Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defeated Beftwich (W), 3-0; Parker Francis (H) defeated Gushney (W), 3-1; Bob Sturgia (H) defeated Kellor (W), 3-2; Lambert (W) defeated Charles Stewart (H), 3-2; Dave Shephard (H) defeated Williams (W), 3-0, George Stevens (H) defeated Mann (W), 3-0; Tufts (H) defeated Lincoln (W), 3-0; Jim McGovern (H) defeated Mikell...
...After Lincoln, F.D.R. The U.S. Civil War, in contrast, seemed remote, almost mythical, virtually genteel. But Clifford Dowdey's Experiment in Rebellion, 'Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Burton J. Hendrick's Lincoln's War Cabinet and a corporal's guard of books dealing with Lincoln himself testified to the apparently fathomless curiosity of the U.S. reader in the events...
...year also saw able new biographies of Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, Zachary Taylor, et al, but only Franklin Roosevelt seemed likely to become a biographers' favorite in the way Lincoln was. The first books were by his friends: former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins' warm The Roosevelt I Knew and White House Physician, by Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, each of which was admiring and modest. But Son Elliott, in As He Saw It, and Louis Adamic in Dinner at the White House, attempted debatable projections of Roosevelt's international views...
...Freshman C squash team dropped its second match in as many starts, when it was defeated yesterday by the Lincoln's Inn Club of the Law School, 3 to 2. In the individual matches, Foster defeated Bingham, Lincoln's Inn, 3 to 2; Preston, Lincoln's Inn, beat Earle, 3 to 1; Cabot downed Quintrell, Lincoln's Inn, 3 to 2; Wells, Lincoln's Inn, defeated Ross...
...publisher of a little, twelve-year-old Illinois newspaper asked his friend Abe Lincoln for an autobiographical sketch.* Publisher Jesse Fell didn't intend to use it in his own Bloomington Pantograph, because everyone in those parts knew all about Abe. He wanted to forward copies of it to eastern papers, to get them interested in Lincoln for President. The Lincoln manuscript has never left the family's possession; neither has the newspaper. Last week the Pantagraph celebrated its 100th anniversary with an ad-fat, 156-page issue...