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...Hopefuls came from independent Republican Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York City's bantam-cock mayor. Withdrawing his name from the Illinois primary ballot, on the excuse that he did not want to divide the liberal vote,* the Mayor said: '. . . I went and saw a movie called Abe Lincoln in Illinois and I looked over the present crop of Republican candidates-phooey...
...Blue stations, Cavalcade put on its most ambitious radio venture to date-a half-hour digest of Carl Sandburg's packed, four-volume biography, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Gangling Playwright Robert E. Sherwood wrote the script, Lincolnesque Raymond Massey, in Chicago playing Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, read the lead. The radio version was an episodic but surprisingly well-linked Lincoln cycle, from Springfield in a stovepipe hat (1861) back to Springfield in a cortege...
...almost the full half-hour. At the finish, although he gave the best Lincoln the radio has heard, he took no curtain calls but darted out the stage door, piled into a police car, was sped five blocks to the Grand Opera House and the curtain-rising of Abe Lincoln in Illinois in nothing flat...
...Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart; TIME...
...Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart; TIME...