Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LINCOLN'S SONS (373 pp.)-Ruth Painter Randall-Little, Brown...
...Abraham Lincoln and a judge friend were bent over a chessboard when the little boy first announced that dinner was ready. Lincoln promised to come home but went on with the game. A second, more urgent call went totally unheeded. Furious, the boy marched forward and with one good kick sent board and chessmen spinning into the air. Calmly, Lincoln took the boy's hand, and turning at the door with a good-natured smile, said: "Well, Judge, I reckon we'll have to finish this game some other time." Said the judge later: "If that little rascal...
...Shadow. Historians disagree whether the boy in question was Lincoln's eldest son Bob or his youngest, Tad, but all four Lincoln sons had received a private emancipation proclamation from the man they called "Pa." His attitude was: "Let the children have a good time." Biographer Randall (Mary Lincoln), widow of the late Lincoln scholar J. G. Randall, brings a mother-hen style to her bundle of anecdotes that will wholly please only devoted parents and memorabilia collectors, but the book does light up Lincoln as father, and what it means to grow up in the shadow...
...Political "Huh." Adams was practically pushed into politics. Lincoln, a one-industry town of 1,500, was dominated by the Parker-Young Co. In 1940, says Martin Brown, then Parker-Young's president, "some of the men at the mill said we ought to send a better type down to the Capitol. They said the men we had sent there were not attending to business." Brown called a meeting of about 25 company officials and suggested that Adams be put up for the legislature.* The proposal was agreed upon. Next day Brown walked into Adams' office and said...
...board chairman of RKO Radio Pictures, announced a $15 million deal with C & C Super Corp., which has taken a perpetual lease on 740 RKO features and 1,000 shorts. The features include such old favorites as Gunga Din, Citizen Kane, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Kitty Foyle, Stage Door, Having Wonderful Time, Once Upon a Honeymoon and eight Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals. All the films in the package may now be rented to TV stations for immediate screening across the nation, with General Teleradio getting exclusive rights to the movies in the six communities...