Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is nothing wrong with our economy that a good dose of confidence won't cure," declared Vice President Richard Nixon at a Republican Lincoln Day rally in Phoenix, Ariz. "The battle cry of the Administration's opponents is obviously going to be 'Depression is just around the corner.' Some are urging us to go back to the multibillion-dollar leaf-raking boondoggling which failed so miserably in the 1930s." If the Democrats are "betting on depression," said he, the Republicans are "betting on prosperity...
...From Lincoln Isham, a Vermont-based great-grandson of Abraham Lincoln, the Library of Congress got an old family Bible and three Lincoln manuscripts. Among them: a draft of a letter from Lincoln to an Illinois friend concerning the merits of re-electing a Congressman, Richard Yates, later governor of Illinois. The malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote...
...Union's virtues is the seldom-heard Civil War music it saves from obscurity, e.g., Abraham Lincoln's Funeral March, a moving piece by an otherwise unknown composer, William Wolsieffer. The score is dedicated to Composer Bales's grandfather, a Union captain, but at least at one point the suspicion is aroused that Virginia-born Richard Bales has fired one last shot for the Grey: to record the boom of a cannon, Columbia sound engineers had a twelve-pounder touched off at Manassas, the site of two of the North's worst defeats...
...week's end Lincoln's fear had given way to funerals; Lincoln's citizens were trying to figure out what made Chuck Starkweather kill eleven people. Psychiatrists attributed it to mild paranoia, Starkweather's friends mentioned the fact that his plans for marriage had been opposed by both families; his father guessed it was mainly a slow boy growing up too fast. Home again and locked in a special cell at the Nebraska penitentiary, Chuck himself showed signs of realizing that in the end the world had beaten him. He had been gay and insolent earlier...
...Melbourne, Aussie Herb Elliott, 19, ground out his second better-than-four-minute-mile in a week. Elliott was clocked in 3:58.7, just 2 yds. ahead of his countryman Merv Lincoln (3:59). But winning was a disappointment: what Elliott had wanted to do was break John Landy's Australian record...