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...Abe Lincoln's gaunt figure has stepped out of the homey precincts of the stage and exposed itself to the glamor of inquisitive Klieg lights. But it has forfeited none of its earthy humanity; its shady sides have not been glossed over by a halo of legend and heroism. A classic of the modern American stage, Robert Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" has now become a classic of American moviedom...
White-haired Lawyer Walter Gould Lincoln, eighth cousin of Abraham Lincoln, asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Henry M. Willis for an injunction to halt cinema showing of Abe Lincoln in Illinois (TIME, Feb. 5). His objection: the film gives the impression that his cousin, who died 75 years ago, was "lazy, shiftless, vacillating and had no ambition...
Cleveland's Russian-born Telephone Diplomat Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, maker of expensive long-distance calls to foreign statesmen on behalf of peace, cabled to Joseph Stalin: "GET WISE TO YOURSELF. TELL THE WORLD THAT RUSSIA WAS AND IS WILLING TO DISARM AND SETTLE ALL DISPUTES BY ARBITRATION. CALL A WORLD CONFERENCE. HITLER, MUSSOLINI, CHAMBERLAIN, DALADIER ARE SAVAGES. TRY TO BRING THEM TO THE TABLE WITH THE HELP OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. A. PICKUS...
...last week's world's championship final, the Chicago Bruins, owned by Pioneer Promoter George Halas (who also owns the professional football-playing Chicago Bears), and the Harlem Globetrotters, owned by Chicago's Abe Saperstein ("the Mike Jacobs of Negro sports"), put on the best show of the week. With only five minutes to play, the Bruins were leading 29-to-21. Then, with a blitzkrieg of crazy passing and shooting, the dipsy-doo Globetrotters bombarded the baskets, won the game (31-to-29), the title and $1,800 first-prize money...
...bolster up Wang prestige, Japanese army bigwigs in China who operate the puppet strings have been demanding that a top-rank Japanese statesman be sent as Tokyo's first Ambassador to the new Nanking puppet show. This week General Nobuyuki Abe, Premier of Japan until last January, was named Special Envoy and Ambassador Plenipotentiary by the Son of Heaven...