Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Medical School professors are among seven defendant doctors in a $250,000 libel suit brought by Robert E. Lincoln, originator of a controversial method for treatment of cancer. Lincoln is also suing the Massachusetts Medical Society...
...Lincoln Kirstein, boss man at City Center, knew the company of young singers were willing to tackle anything, even coloratura. Moreover, Kirstein himself is tiring of the heavy melodrama of Verdi and the heavy orchestras of Wagner. He is betting that the future lies with compositions that combine high spirits and vocal acrobatics. He decided that Cenerentola might help him test his theory...
...with Trills. The test could hardly have pleased Lincoln Kirstein more. Mezzo-Soprano Bible, whose best roles heretofore have been a couple of light-hearted male impersonations (Cherubino in Figaro, Octavian in Rosertkavalier), never looked prettier. She trilled out her coloratura passages like a flute, and also shook the rafters with a few stunning fortissimos. Baritone George Gaynes, who is Rosalind Russell's leading man in Broadway's Wonderful Town, took a night off to play the part of the prince's scene-stealing valet, and indulge in some jaunty clowning. Biggest joke of all was John...
When other reporters began to check the Alsops' story, however, the implication that Project Lincoln was the Government's prime concern collapsed like a pricked balloon. At a presidential press conference, Dwight Eisenhower quietly remarked that he had never studied the report in detail. Other Administration spokesmen made it clear that Project Lincoln is only one of several air-defense studies, none of which is now under active consideration...
...shooting down of an unarmed British bomber over the Elbe River (TIME, March 23). He admitted that the British plane had been out of bounds, but saw no reason why "the lives of seven British airmen were callously taken for a navigational error. The Russians repeatedly fired on the Lincoln and mercilessly destroyed it when it was actually west of and within the allied zonal frontier...