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...visit to the 155-year-old Georgetown home of Mrs. McCook Knox set up even more barriers. Ramps had to be built to pull a camera off the street after the show got under way. A seven-story crane was moved into place to hoist a "cup" for relaying the TV signal out of the valley-like terrain of Georgetown. Just 45 minutes before show time, the Fire Department refused to let Morgan pull the switches on the TV equipment because it might overload the electrical circuits. Somebody talked the fire inspectors into going away while the technicians figured...
...picture's shadowy history was pieced together recently by Art Historian Katharine McCook Knox. A Chicago promoter commissioned the canvas from the most fashionable portraitist of the day, George Peter Alexander Healy, just after the 1860 elections. Healy buttonholed the President-elect at Springfield, got him to sit three times. A visiting politician dropped by the senate chamber in Springfield's old statehouse to watch one of the sittings, later described the scene: "He [Lincoln] sat to the artist with his right foot on top of the left and both feet turned inward-pigeon fashion-round-shouldered-looking...
...high-speed Santa Fe train, designed for better competition with truckers in hauling fresh fruit from the West Coast, set a new record for California-to-Chicago freight trains on its maiden run last week. Train No. 62 hauled 18 refrigerated carloads of American Beauty plums to McCook, Ill. in 61½ hours, compared to the average truck time of about 96 hours...
...cast features Shercliff as the Judge, Jean Daxter '52 as the Plaintiff and Dan McCook '48 as the defendant. Sam V. K. Willson '50 directs the show...
...chorus must first be praised for its sincerity. More substantial representatives of the British race I never saw, enlightened men all who will see that justice is done. The Defendant, Dan McCook, is a horrid fellow, a real dandy, and the Jury again deserves credit for reading their newspapers rather than listening to his fine voice. The poor, dear Angelina of Joan Dexter is positively radiant in spite of the beastly treatment she has undergone. And though his law's a fudge, justice is competently and wisely apportioned by Judge Arthur Shercliff. So impressed, in fact, was the public with...