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...Quakers were swamped by Yale 74-21 before Christmas and if their lack-luster performance continues, as it undoubtedly will, the Crimson will be able to bring its record above the .500 mark for the first time since a season-opening story against Springfield...
...With 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection and a lively text, a mother-and-son team gives new perspectives to the 20-day period in April and May 1865, from the time Abraham Lincoln fell mortally wounded to the time his body was laid to rest at Springfield...
...Kunhardt Jr. Illustrated with 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection accompanied by a lively text, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives to describe the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, covers the period from the slaying until his body was laid to rest in Springfield...
...Robert C. Henry, 44, a Negro undertaker, was elected mayor of Springfield, Ohio (pop. 83,500), by fellow members of the Springfield city commission. Other Negroes have served as mayors of towns and small cities, but Henry is the only Negro now serving in a community of Springfield's size. By custom, the commissioner who receives the greatest popular vote in the nonpartisan popular election is named to the largely honorary post of mayor. Henry, a Republican, was the top vote getter last November after the Springfield Sun editorialized that he "began public service as Springfield's first...
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...