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...unkempt, and one wonders if he was not unwashed, in those days of the weekly bath in the foot tub, if a bath was taken at all. [As attorney, for the Illinois Central R. R. he was found] riding about on special trains furnished him and posing as 'Humble Abe Lincoln...
...Author Hecht's creature seems at first a repulsive caricature. But the caricature grows into a portrait, the creature into a personality who is as interesting as he is unpleasant. Many an author would give his eyeteeth to be able to approximate the Hechticvitality. Jo Boshere (real name: Abe Nussbaum) made a fortune on the stock exchange, then turned his attention to publishing. But his real hobby was women. He was married to a woman "whom he kept concealed on ocean liners," with whom he enjoyed sporadic interludes but to whom he was in no sense devoted...
Died. Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, 62, newspaper caricaturist who created "Abe Martin"; of heart disease; in Indianapolis, Ind. Working for the Indianapolis News since 1891, he had for the last 26 years done a daily drawing of "Abe Martin," a lanky Indiana farmer whose comments on life and current topics were homely, brief, genial. He invented other small-town characters, syndicated their sage humor in many a U. S. paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could...
...boner", according to M. S. Balch '25, instructor and tutor who has made a private collection of "howlers", culled from themes submitted in English A. Mr. Balch called attention to the imagination brought to bear in a theme about the Great Emancipator, by a Freshman Gamaliel Bradford who wrote, "Abe Lincoln, his big feet more than filling the shoes of his weak-kneed predecessor, Buchanan, stepped into that gay, social whirl of guile and graft at Washington with a threatening warcloud darkening the Southern horizon." Another budding historian explained that "Queen Elizabeth was by this time firmly entrenched...
...double for the familiar pictures of Lincoln?; sometimes, particularly in the earlier scenes as the backwoods lawyer without the beard and the weary dignity that characterized the President, one could not tell who he was meant to be if subordinate persons did not constantly (almost too often) call him Abe. At all times however, his acting proves that he has thought out the part and made every gesture and intonation consistent with his conception of it. Ian Keith, as the half-mad, half-drunk actor-assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is as macabre and satanic as a character by Edgar Allan...