Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary of the Air Force; Investment Banker Townsend W. Hoopes; Johns Hopkins Administrative Officer Ellis A. Johnson; Harvardman Henry A. Kissinger, author of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (TIME, Aug. 26); Colonel George A. Lincoln, West Point social scientist; Henry R. Luce, editor-in-chief, TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE; Lawyer Frank C. Nash, former Assistant to the Defense Secretary (who died during the study); Laurance S. Rockefeller; Harvard Economist Arthur Smithies; Physicist Edward Teller; Aeronautical Consultant T. F. Walkowicz; Industrialist Carroll L. Wilson, former AEC general manager...
Wild Weave. Last week Christine rebelled for the fourth furious time. Walking along Mount Vernon's Lincoln Avenue one afternoon, she noted a red Chevrolet parked with ignition off but unlocked. Explained Christine afterward: "I just felt I had to break the law." She broke it by sliding behind the wheel, driving the car onto the Hutchinson River Parkway and heading south toward New York City. At a toll station, the same cop who had stopped her the first time as a runaway recognized Christine...
...Contralto Anderson acknowledged an honorary degree from Seoul's Ewha Women's University with the emotion-charged Negro spiritual, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, sang Home, Sweet Home with homesick U.S. 24th Infantry Division troops on Korea's front lines, explained Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to schoolchildren in Bangkok, told schoolboys in Malaya: "I might bring to your attention that hate and fear are two things with which babies are not born." There were many, but not too many, songs-Schubert's Serenade in Manila, Mon Coeur S'ouvre...
Psychiatrists Eugene L. Bliss and Lincoln D. Clark began the study for several reasons: 1) it is important for military men to know the limits of human endurance; 2) although the personality-destroying effects of sleep deprivation have long been known to inquisitors in police states (and lately used by Communists in brainwashing), they have been little studied by psychiatrists; 3) in a few cases, at least, the onset of schizophrenia is marked by insomnia so severe that it may be a precipitating factor...
...that she is pregnant, and he marries her. Eva Marie looks distressed, but maintains her maiden faith. Sure enough, everything turns out all right: Fort Sumter is shot up, Elizabeth Taylor goes completely insane, Atlanta is burned again (it looked hotter in Gone With the Wind), Clift gets wounded, Lincoln is assassinated, and finally there is a fond fadeout between Clift and Eva Marie...