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...Paul, who is estimated to be worth over $2.2 billion, flew "some friends," as he put it, from San Francisco to New York last week for an advance bash (he actually passes the half-century mark next week. The highlight of the three-day fling was an evening at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, where Mezzo Soprano Mignon Dunn performed the New York City premiere of Amateur Composer Getty's The White Election. The 32-song cycle won accolades from the audience as well as Getty himself, who called it his "biggest moment yet as a composer...
...long ago is it?-80-odd years." Those were Abraham Lincoln's words, spoken to a crowd gathered around the White House on a July evening in 1863, just after the crucial Union victory at Gettysburg. He would use the same thought, transformed into the rather more memorable "Four score and seven years ago" to open his address dedicating the cemetery at Gettysburg the following November. This engaging anecdote is just one of the many historical delights in A New Birth of Freedom: Lincoln at Gettysburg by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. (Little, Brown; 263 pages; $22.50). Kunhardt...
BORN. To Phyllis George Brown, 34, Miss America of 1971 and NFL Today host, and John Y. Brown Jr., 49, Governor (until next week) of Kentucky: their second child, a daughter; in Lexington. Name: Pamela Ashley. Weight: 7 Ibs. 10½ oz. Asked Older Brother Lincoln, 3½: "How long does she stay before she goes back...
...started around that time, a considerable miscalculation. Football at Nebraska goes back to 1890, when the team was known variously as the Old Gold Knights, the Antelopes or the Bug-eaters. This last unfortunate appellation stuck, as to the grille and windshield of passing automobiles, until around 1900 a Lincoln sportswriter decided Bugeaters was not a proper nickname for the players and began to refer to them as Cornhuskers. Coach Jumbo Stiehm's teams, vintage 1911-15, alternately called the Cornhuskers and the Stiehm Rollers, were regularly undefeated against the likes of Notre Dame. During the 1920s, Knute Rockne...
...didn't know very much about Nebraska," reflects this joyful Irishman from Michigan who restored the Cornhuskers' glory. "For instance, how pretty the city of Lincoln really is. Scenery is not exactly a coach's priority. Duffy Daugherty [who coached Michigan State for 19 years] told me the people loved football and supported the team irregardless of the record. 'Of course,' Duffy said, 'they're more friendly when you win.' " Devaney won immediately and spectacularly. After a 3-6-1 season in 1961, the Cornhuskers took nine of eleven games in Devaney...