Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Harris Jr., 62, serious-minded Broadway producer of serious-minded plays (Outward Bound, The Criminal Code, John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln); after long illness; in Manhattan...
Carl Sandburg, 68-year-old poet and all-out Lincoln biographer, squared himself for a faintly eerie tribute from his admirers. In Galesburg, Ill., the Carl Sandburg Association had restored the little cottage where he was born, and next month the shrine would be dedicated...
...whopping charitable donations and extravagant tipping ($15 to captains, $10 to waiters, up to $5 to busboys, with an extra $1 each for winning smiles). Reputed to be a soft touch for any & all hard-luck stories, he favors midnight blue shirts with white silk ties, drives a black Lincoln limousine equipped with siren, white bearskin rug, New York license plate (MH 1) and bulletproof glass (gift of a former gangster acquaintance). Hollywood also reveres Hellinger for his seemingly inexhaustible stock of excellent liquor, his fondness for intricate practical jokes and his small superstitions...
...raising this fundamental question, so that none could evade it, the four Americans who died, needlessly, in time of peace, on a routine mission, may in Lincoln's words have laid a costly sacrifice upon the altar of freedom...
Hallowell returned to Harvard after the war as an English instructor and assistant dean, there was spotted by wealthy Western Reserve. The Academy was endowed with $4 million in 1925 by the late James W. Ellsworth, coal-mining father of Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. His will tied up the money so that future headmasters could not spend it on buildings. Ellsworth's endowment pays the 30 faculty salaries, which are among the highest in U.S. prep schools, and provides scholarships for one-third of the 210 students. Tuition for the rest is $1,100 (board included), lower than most Eastern...