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...Lincoln In Illinois (RKO) falters through the Great Emancipator's frontier youth, does not hit its solemn stride until long-legged, melancholy Lawyer Lincoln stalks in to meet tightlipped, go-getting Mary Todd. From then on, it is dedicated to the proposition that its doom-ridden hero was nagged into greatness by an ambitious wife...
...occasionally frets about 22-year-old Son Ib's cinema ambitions in Hollywood, keeps 19-year-old Daughter Birte hard at her business-school courses in Copenhagen. Though he diets in summer to keep his weight down to 225 Ibs., he takes his winter opera performances in his stride, often eats heavy meals before he goes to the opera house, smokes all the cigars he wants to, drinks his aqvavit neat. His brown-eyed, Bavarian-born wife Kleinchen (real name Maria Hacker), who could almost be tucked into one of the pockets of his massive vest, keeps him well...
Emperor. Only 49, a small, keen-eyed, fast-thinking, tireless, eloquent Yankee, Vannevar ("Van") Bush year ago stepped into the presidential shoes of Dr. John Campbell Merriam (who is officially retired but continues his own researches in paleontology). Dr. Bush takes his new job in his stride. Besides learning the ropes of the Carnegie Institution, he finds time to chairman the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the National Academy of Sciences' division of engineering. Besides, he loves symphonies, himself flutes, hunts, sails, quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard. In New Hampshire he has a farm where...
...White House Christmas settles into its stride on Christmas Eve. In the afternoon the President will make a brief national broadcast, and light the National Community Christmas tree. After dinner Franklin Roosevelt, a longtime lover of Tiny Tim, reads aloud to his family Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol...
...Lion hoopmen got off to a late practice start and probably will not hit their stride until well after the Christmas holidays. As holdovers from the 1939 five which finished second only to Dartmouth in the final standings, Coach Paul Mooney has little Albie Myers and Jack Naylor, regulars, and John Gilligan, a reserve who saw plenty of action...