Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sittings were punctuated by occasional visits from members of the Westmoreland family. At one time, ten-year-old Kit charged into the garden, spotted the bust in progress and gasped: "Gee, it's President Lincoln!" A second look straightened her out, but the awe was gone. "Oh," she sighed, "it's only Dad." The general roared with laughter. From Katherine, 17, came quite a different reaction. She returned to Honolulu for Christmas vacation proud of the fact that TIME had published a letter from a reader suggesting her father as Man of the Year. When...
Michigan Juvenile Court Judge James H. Lincoln rightfully points out that correctional institutions cannot really check juvenile delinquency, that they are, in fact, "last resorts and monuments to our failures." Many schools are still no different from adult prisons; even the best face shortages of good teachers and modern equipment. What is worse, nearly 35% of juvenile delinquents return to training schools for later violations-not to mention the uncounted thousands who graduate to adult prisons. Nonetheless, reform-school teachers and superintendents take solace from the fact that they have unquestionably saved some boys from life behind bars. One Warwick...
...assassination of Abraham Lincoln is one chapter in history that most Americans feel they know by heart. Yet, though it hardly seems possible, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives which take on special import in the wake of the assassination in Dallas...
Twenty Days covers the period from the moment Lincoln fell mortally wounded to the time his body was laid to rest at Springfield. Authors Dorothy and Philip Kunhardt are mother and son. Mrs. Kunhardt's father, the late Frederick Hill Meserve, devoted a lifetime to collecting photographs of Lincoln and his times. This famed collection was left to Mrs. Kunhardt, and she and Son Philip, who is an assistant managing editor of LIFE, spent years writing the text and winnowing out photographs. The result is a book of lively prose and telling pictures that historians will respect and journalists...
...pertinent and the bogus. They give the conflicting eyewitness accounts of the President's murder and the wild rumors that swept Washington, as well as a factual narrative of the events before and after his death. There are not only pictures of Booth's derringer, the chair Lincoln sat in, the clothes he wore; there are also spurious photographs of Lincoln in death and of mawkish funeral souvenirs...