Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having already decided that he had no more good mile races left in his system for this season, Don Bowden, the only better-than-four-minute miler in the U.S., traveled to the National A.A.U. championships in Dayton and ran a slow third behind Australia's Merv Lincoln (4:06.1) and U.C.L.A. Senior Bob Seaman. In the 440-yd. run, remarkable Reggie Pearman, 33, ran the fastest quarter mile of his life (0:46.4) to win the title just ten years after he won his first A.A.U. championship by beating Mal Whitfield...
...years as a composer, he has been both a popular success and a daring musical explorer, both a commercial artist unafraid of writing for money on assignment (e.g., his Tango for piano solo, his elephants' polka for the Ringling Brothers Circus) and yet an uncompromising individualist. Says Impresario Lincoln Kirstein: "He heard first for us all. Sounds he has found or invented, however strange or forbidding at the outset, have become domesticated in our ears...
...Ralph Lazarus, 43, fourth-generation retailer of the Lazarus merchant family, stepped up to president of Federated Department Stores, Inc., which grossed $601 million in the past year from its 38-link chain. His father, Co-Founder Fred Lazarus Jr., 72, moved up to chairman. Former Chairman Lincoln Filene, 92, also a founder and the dean of U.S. retailers, eased into the new job of honorary chairman. The executive switch means that Fred Lazarus will steadily relinquish more authority to his son, who in 22 years with the company following his graduation from Dartmouth has held every post from sales...
...Letting San Francisco Lincoln-Mercury Dealer Eddie Lowery pay his way to a long list of amateur golf tournaments seemed all right to U.S. Amateur Champion Harvie Ward. Lowery was his boss, and Lowery told him, said Harvie, that it did not matter that the U.S. Golf Association had given him expense money too. The U.S.G.A. saw things somewhat differently. Last week it put Harvie on a year's probation for violating amateur ethics...
Goodhart, Knight Commander of the British Empire, is an authority on English Law and its philosophy. He is an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and the author of a number of books on legal subjects. A native of New York, he holds degrees from Yale and Cambridge Universities...