Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engine that took fourth in the same race. Some small manufacturers, notably Britain's Allard Motor Co., built cars with Cadillac and Chrysler engines and many standard American parts and saw them lick the ears off finely tuned European sports cars. And in the last Mexican road race, Lincoln sedans came in one, two, three in the stock-car class...
Golden Rule. In Lincoln, Neb., Lewis Mercy mercifully removed Richard Maul's glasses before thumping him on the nose and incurring a $10 fine for assault & battery...
...Lincoln Kirstein is now managing director of the New York City Center, with theater and opera groups also under his wing. He aims to raise these two groups to the same level of esteem the ballet troupe has won. Kirstein already has blueprints for a new Manhattan theater building with room for a ballet school, theater workshop and an opera studio. When will it be finished? "Within ten years." Its chances of success? "A sure thing...
...when governments (but not the U.S.) and philanthropic foundations have all but taken over the art-patron business, Manhattan's Lincoln Kirstein, 45, is a pillar of individualism. In the past 20 years he has spent close to half a million dollars of his own money to commission and produce new music and ballets, chiefly for the vigorous New York City Ballet and its forerunners. To Patron Kirstein last week came a fittingly symbolic award: $500 and a citation from Manhattan's Capezio Inc., the U.S.'s largest makers of ballet slippers, "for distinguished service to American...
Dancers from All Over. Ever since he graduated from Harvard (1930), Lincoln Kirstein has been pushing his close-cropped head and broad shoulders into the arts. As the son of the board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store, he could afford to lose money on his ventures, and often did. Among them the expensive, respected but short-lived highbrow magazine Hound & Horn, Harvard's Society for Contemporary Art a novel, a book of poems, a scholarly book on the dance...