Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could have sworn Koerner's cover showed Abraham Lincoln sleepwalking. My apologies to the handsome Mr. Bernstein...
...Murrow's cigarette or Arthur Godfrey's tea bag. Clamped in a vise of earphones, the eyes roll heavenward and squeeze shut, the brow sweats and furrows, the teeth gnaw at the lower lip. But the weekly torment of concentration always ends in triumph for Charles Lincoln Van Doren, 30, who has already won $122,000-more than any other quiz contestant in history-and is still going strong on NBC's Twenty One (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.). Van Doren. a Columbia University English instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren clan, also enjoys...
...novel is still unpublished. But since he returned to the U.S. and finally embraced his father's career as writer and teacher. Charles has broken into print as assistant editor of Fadiman's anthology The American Treasury, and this April Harper's will publish his Lincoln's Commando, a biography on the Union Navy's William B. Gushing, written in collaboration with Ralph H. Roske...
...Colby, a B team and two freshmen will represent the Crimson. The freshmen, Bill Niemi and Lincoln Ford, cannot enter the team competition because of Association rules, but they hope to take points in individual standings...
...Lincoln White, State Department press officer, said the Polish government has been invited to hold the economic talk in Washington and has accepted. He thought the negotiations would start soon. Other sources said the United States was ready to begin them early next week...