Word: lincoln
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...question is Dean Francis Sayre of the Washington Cathedral, who a few days ago passed his 25th anniversary up on Mount St. Alban, which looks out over the capital. He is one of eleven people born in the White House (Jan. 17,1915, in a small chamber near the Lincoln Bedroom), grandson of Woodrow Wilson, onetime secretary to F.D.R.'s political chief James Farley and friend or acquaintance of every President since then. The lanky Sayre has some of the Wilson profile and a lot of the inner fiber: he denounced McCarthyism, stood with the civil rights marchers...
...Andy Jackson," muses Dean Sayre, "was a dirty old soldier before he came to the White House, and Lincoln, this fellow of the prairie, we've had no more religious leader in all our history. Wilson had a vision. Harry Truman, that haberdasher from Missouri, he was a towering figure of moral probity. American people expect it in our system, but the more...
Last Straw--Wheatstraw, Back Door. Country rock from the Club Zircon. John Lincoln Wright helps out. More than proficient, these boys will go far if there's justice...
...American view of Russia has been refracted over the last half-century through layers of repugnance, infatuation, loathing, horror, suspicion, complacency-and now, in doubts about détente, by suspicion again. It has run a course from Lincoln Steffens' fatuous "I have been over into the future, and it works" to the nightmares of John Foster Dulles. In imagining Russia, Americans have always had a tendency to project their own illusions upon a wall of blank ignorance...
...Columbia's Court of Appeals has ruled that the boy, who lives in West Berlin with his mother, must undergo a blood test to help check Beckwith's claim of non-fatherhood-which would prove her adultery. As it happens, the trust fund, which was established by Lincoln's daughter-in-law (Beckwith's grandmother), could eventually go to the boy even if he is not Beckwith's. The reason is that in any subsequent case directly concerned with Timothy's legitimacy, the law would still be heavily weighted toward finding that when...