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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). Abe Lincoln in Illinois, with Raymond Massey and Betty Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Republican nomination because "he didn't think it would be wise of the American people to pick as President a man they knew only as a military leader." If the Republican Party had gotten Ike, George avows, it "would have had a candidate worthy of its Abraham Lincoln tradition." Would George have voted for him? Not on your life. George Allen is first and last a party man. Politics are politics. At all costs, the herd must be saved: rumps together, horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Rumps Together, Horns Out | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...should have occurred at all. Rarely in history had anyone questioned the right of a nation under attack to strike at its enemies' home base. One of the few historical situations similar to that facing the U.N. had developed during the U.S. Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln believed that some of his generals shared a widespread Northern belief that Union armies should confine themselves to defending Northern territory. Lincoln was dismayed first by the delaying tactics of General George McClellan, later by the sluggishness of General George Meade who allowed Lee's defeated Confederate army to slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everybody Bowed | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...that the meteor crater near Canyon Diablo in Arizona was feared and shunned superstitiously by the Indians. Legend has it that the crater was regarded as the place where the Great Spirit appeared as a huge ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...show opens with a child actor wishing he could be some character in fact or fiction. No sooner said than done: with Mr. L's "magic" intervention he becomes Abraham Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Washtub Armada | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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