Word: lincoln
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...presidency is nearly 200 years old. It has survived flood, fire and pestilence, half a dozen wars, and the loss of Presidents Lincoln, F.D.R. and our beloved John F. Kennedy while they were still in office...
Taking time out from preparing his next thriller, Director Alfred Hitchcock, 74, attended a gala in his honor given by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Accompanied by his wife of 48 years, Alma Reville, who was one of his first scriptwriters, the master sat in a box while 2,800 admirers, who had paid up to $250 each, enjoyed three hours of celluloid suspense. Clips from many of Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco...
There was champagne, however, donated by coach Betty Lincoln to celebrate the victory and toast the squad's only graduating member Kathy Agoos, and team captain Lissa Muscatine. The champagne and the tremendous team spirit that carried the group through the tough matches more than made up for what the finale lacked in excitement and challenge...
CATHERINE LINCOLN Wolfenbüttel, West Germany...
...Minneapolis in 1901, reported Muckraker Lincoln Steffens, the mayor stacked the police department, then openly "laid plans to turn the city over to outlaws." A grand jury investigation eventually brought down the scheme. Eighty years ago, the sin-thumping Rev. Charles Parkhurst plunged state investigators into New York City's Tenderloin district for ten months of astounding discoveries about police involvement in brothels and gambling houses. Since then, a major investigation has been made of New York's Finest at almost regular intervals (1913, 1930, 1950, 1971). Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition...