Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tozzer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Castle Tozzer, a daughter, Mrs. William Lincoln of Brookline, and five grandchildren...
...more or less successful attempt to show the fuzzy, slogannaire thinking of the Bureau legislative chairman Charles X. Miller, who took credit for initiating the charges, Raymond A. McConnell, Jr., editor of the Lincoln Evening Journal, reported on an interview he had with this Bureau representative...
Died. Helen Nicolay, 88, daughter of Abraham Lincoln's personal secretary, John G. Nicolay, and author of popular biographies of popular people (MacArthur of Bataan, China's First Lady); of a heart ailment; in Washington...
CANON OLIVER S. TOMKINS, 46, of Lincoln, England is the theological brain of Evanston. A member of the "Faith and Order Department," he drafted dozens of working papers. Born in China, the son of a clergyman, Tomkins knew the dangers of missionary work from childhood. Says he calmly: "I reckon I'm the last man to have had an uncle eaten by cannibals...
...Todd Lincoln. Following six previous biographical novels, e.g., Lust for Life (Painter Van Gogh). The President's Lady (Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel), his latest has the birthmarks of another big bestseller. As Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises...