Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock, Honest Ave took his wife's arm and walked to his 1939 Lincoln Zephyr. The TV cameras asked him to do it again. He obliged, and this time, with a determined smile, reached out to pump the hand of a surprised Department of Sanitation streetcleaner. Then the Harrimans were off for the politician's tour of the city...
During a visit to their old friend, Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson, British Diplomat Sir Gladwyn Jebb and his wife climbed into an ox-drawn cart for a tourists' tour of Lincoln Village in New Salem. The tour ended when the driver lost control of the oxen and the cart lumbered into a big tree, leaving the passengers shaken but undamaged. Said Sir Gladwyn: "I think we got out rather luckily considering that this has been our first try at midwest sightseeing...
...Tokyo newspaper polled its readers to learn what foreigner they respected the most. Result: 395 votes for Douglas MacArthur; 327 votes for Abraham Lincoln...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Abraham Lincoln...
...tennis game to be played on paper. Gradually, as his vocabulary increased, he began to explore territory beyond "How are you today?" and "Is your cold better?" He wanted to know about Alexander Graham Bell, Gandhi and the U.N. In time, he read Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows Up, learned the Gettysburg Address, and Mrs. Vining "entertained hopes that some day at a diplomatic dinner, he would be able to dazzle the American Ambassador by an apt quotation." By the time Mrs. Vining's four years were up, the Prince was reading Pilgrim's Progress, could...