Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ghana's motto, writ large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice." Last week, scarcely six months after Ghana, under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah (Lincoln University, Pa. '39), became a free nation amid high hopes, both freedom and justice seemed to be in retreat...
...forward line, Getchell is looking for a center who feeds off well and makes the right moves at the right time. He has tried Al Vando and Alex Goren, who both also play left inside, John Chadwick and Gallagher. Vando has played soccer for three years at the New Lincoln School...
...LUXURY BUICK will be brought out next month in $5,000 class to compete with Cadillac, Lincoln and Chrysler Imperial. Dubbed the "Limited," car will measure 223 in. from bumper to bumper (8 in. longer than Roadmaster), will come in hardtop or convertible models with power windows, power steering, air-suspension ride and automatic transmission as standard equipment...
...history, will keep Bing in New York (at a "substantially improved" salary) through the spring of 1962, and perhaps 1964. will allow him to lead the Met from its old house into the promised land of Manhattan's huge new Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne's stark new opera theater, plush...
Running the company alone, Lincoln helped build Federated Department Stores into what ranks (on first-quarter earnings) as the nation's biggest retailer, adding such stores as Columbus' F. & R. Lazarus Co. (1929), Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus (1929), Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. (1930), Houston's Foley Bros. (1949), Dallas' Sanger Bros. (1951). Yet he was never so busy selling that he forgot the workers and society around him. Filene was a leading spirit of the New England Industrial Development Corp. to encourage small businessmen, pumped hard for better schools, wrote three books...