Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present-day terms, the story tells of a Massachusetts state senator, a Republican of rather low I.Q., whose son has driven him into debt from frequenting Lincoln Downs too often. In order to weasel out of his debts, the father (performed with virtuosity by Daniel Garrison, complete with belches and burps) enrolls after hours at a fly-by-night school in Boston, in the hope of mastering legal quibbles and learning how to persuade a jury that red is really green. He flunks out, though, and forces his son (cleanly played by Marsh McCall) to matriculate in his stead...
State Department press officer Lincoln White denied "as strongly as I possibly can" Moscow's accusation Sunday that the United States deliberately flouted Berlin's air corridor rules by a high altitude plane flight March 27. The Soviets said this was done to wreck prospects at the Geneva parley starting...
...fair way to become wealthy as a teenagers' guitar-thwonking singing idol. A few months ago he answered an ad in London's Daily Mirror that invited young musicians to "Just Dial FAME." FAME's mortal form, it turned out, is the chunky person of Paul Lincoln, an ex-wrestler and Soho coffee-bar proprietor who runs a stable of rock-'n'-roll yodelers, is the muse behind hugely successful Singer Tommy Steele (TIME, Dec. 30, 1957). Lincoln heard tapes of Kris singing and playing folk songs he had written himself, quickly signed...
...Rank, J. Arthur Rank's British recording firm (he is also dickering with J. Arthur's calamitously titled U.S. subsidiary, Rank Records), and set off with a earful of fellow Oxonians to tour Switzerland on the first proceeds. The young idol-apparent, renamed Kris Carson by Promoter Lincoln, is dead serious about making a success as a singer, chiefly because he wants enough money to be able to support himself while he writes. Merton College Tutor Hugo Dyson is not worried that Kris will abandon literature for the larynx, calls Kris "one of the most favorable specimens...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, professor of History, and Bernice B. Cronkhite, dean of the Radcliffe Graduat School, will speak in the "briefing session on Wednesday, April 15. On Thursday, April 16, Lincoln Gordon '34, William Ziegler Professor of International Economic Relations, and Stanley S. Surrey, M.Ed. '50, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, will preside as chairmen of two panels...