Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stroke of Fate (Sun. 9 p.m.) poses some intriguing iffy questions about history. First question: "What might have happened if Robert E. Lee had accepted Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army?" After consultation with Columbia Historian Allan Nevins, veteran Radio-TV Writer Mort Lewis decided that Lee's generalship would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed...
...launched his plan in 1938 in the belief that most people fail to buy stock simply because they don't know how to go about it. He decided to sell stock on a flexible installment plan, with 120 payments ranging from $10 up. A local bank, now the Lincoln Rochester Trust Co., agreed to be custodian of the stock and keep records of the payments. To make things simple, Quinby offered only one stock, Eastman Kodak, the company best known in Rochester...
TURKEY became the Middle East's most modern state in a generation and through the efforts of one man. Kemal Ataturk, a rough, hard-drinking neurotic who combined traces of Lincoln's vision and Stalin's ruthlessness, established the Turkish Republic, ran it like a dictatorship, topped it off with a tailor-made opposition. Modern Turkey, striving to be even more modern, still needs capital, roads, teachers, more private enterprise...
...Stanton, at that time, Lincoln was "that long-armed baboon . . . that giraffe." Even after the Civil War had begun, he told the delighted General McClellan that Lincoln was the "original gorilla." But when Lincoln named him to the Cabinet, Stanton became a dynamic Secretary to the man he had once despised. He drove his subordinates mercilessly, but never so hard as he drove himself. Says Author Pratt: "He could tear up a contract and fling the pieces in the contractor's face; he could pass a white-haired father through to the bedside of his wounded son . . . He could...
With less than three minutes left in the second overtime, right wing Bill Lingelbach dribbled outside his opposing fullback and pumped the winning score past Williams goalie Tom Lincoln. The win, a definite upset gave Coach Bruce Munro double pleasure since it dispelled any misgivings he may have had about his untried forward line...