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...must also overcome the handicap of being a "bedroom" resident of the state (his home is in Greenwich, but his business is in New York). Ribicoff's backers are incensed because of what they term Bush's anti-Semitic innuendos; he constantly refers to his opponent as "Abraham" or "Abe Ribicoff." The charge is at best a tenuous...
...talked for 4½ hours. In mid-afternoon Shivers came out smiling, said he was going to mosey around and might look at Abe Lincoln's tomb while Stevenson thought the matter over. (He never did visit the tomb, instead called at the office of a Texas insurance...
...prestige), Barkley is the most-sought-after speaker in the Democratic Party. His political oratory booms and pulses with echoes of the old-fashioned tub thump (even though he has consciously tried to tone it down for the microphone). Most of his stories are as whiskery and old as Abe Lincoln. But from Atlanta to Manhattan they love them, because they can't help loving the man who tells the stories. Somehow he stirs an impulse that every splintered Democrat feels more deeply than the jagged hatred of the other splinters. The impulse of love lies close...
...invented a tennis game to be played on paper. Gradually, as his vocabulary increased, he began to explore territory beyond "How are you today?" and "Is your cold better?" He wanted to know about Alexander Graham Bell, Gandhi and the U.N. In time, he read Carl Sandburg's Abe Lincoln Grows Up, learned the Gettysburg Address, and Mrs. Vining "entertained hopes that some day at a diplomatic dinner, he would be able to dazzle the American Ambassador by an apt quotation." By the time Mrs. Vining's four years were up, the Prince was reading Pilgrim...
Three Wishes for Jamie (book by Charles O'Neal & Abe Burrows; music & lyrics by Ralph Blane) is an almost immoderately innocuous musical. It tries very hard to endow a mere formula with the magic of a fairy tale, and struggles, by being as tame as it is Irish, to promote an Eire of good feeling...