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Total Security. The mock-hero of Author Ernst Pawel's From the Dark Tower unintentionally reminds the reader that Jonahs as well as Ahabs go looking for their private whales. Abe Rogoff is a middle-aged Jonah just asking to be swallowed. For ten years he has been a snickering outsider ("to take business seriously is a kind of disease") camouflaged as a docile insider in the pseudo-Gothic spires of Manhattan's Tower Mutual Life Insurance Co. Abe's disease might be diagnosed as undulant barricade fever, the nostalgic complaint of an ex-free-lover...
Shame on TIME. If Nehru was wrong, Abe Lincoln was wrong...
...press also gave Lincoln staunch supporters, e.g., the Chicago Tribune and the Cincinnati Daily Commercial, and some memorable reporting, such as the Commercial's description of the elation in Chicago at Lincoln's first nomination: "The city was wild with delight. The 'Old Abe' men formed processions and bore rails through the streets. Torrents of liquor were poured down the hoarse throats of the multitude. A hundred guns were fired from the top of Tremont House...
...Nick Schenck, now honorary chairman. They have two hurdles ahead. Not only must they actually line up enough proxies to oust Schenck and Schary, but they must find a competent man to replace Vogel. They have already offered the presidency to Leonard Goldenson, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Abe Schneider, vice president of Columbia Pictures, and Lew Wasserman, president of Music Corp. of America. All three turned it down. Said the Lehman-Lazard spokesman: "At February's annual meeting, the two investment companies will be able to walk in and take control without a fight-provided they find...
...Illinois territory into touchdowns, and led by 13-0. The capacity homecoming crowd at Champaign sat glumly waiting for Michigan State to turn on its second-half drive and send Illinois to its fourth straight defeat. They had not counted on a spring-legged Negro right halfback named Abe Woodson, who also happens to be co-holder of the world 50-yard indoor high-hurdle record...