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...rough-cut, reverent set of lyrics, they skimmed the Lincoln legend from hollow-log cradle to resurrection, not missing the Lincoln-Douglas debate, in which Abe's words "flashed home like singing bullets, Steve's jumped fence like frisky pullets." Liveliest lines: on an apocryphal schoolroom spelling bee in which Abe Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge headed opposing teams. The spelldown...
...Abe stands pat on Yacht and Phthisic...
...Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Raymond Massey, Ruth Gordon, Gene Lockhart; TIME...
...Abe Lincoln In Illinois (RKO) falters through the Great Emancipator's frontier youth, does not hit its solemn stride until long-legged, melancholy Lawyer Lincoln stalks in to meet tightlipped, go-getting Mary Todd. From then on, it is dedicated to the proposition that its doom-ridden hero was nagged into greatness by an ambitious wife...
...these factors contributed to the week's culminating blow. As expected, the weak Abe Cabinet fell. But definitely not as expected, and to the Army's bitter confusion, the Cabinet which took its place was not militaristic, not chauvinistic, not even mystic-was for down-to-earth opportunism rather than any magic clichè of expansion. Worst of all, its Premier was a Navy man. And of all the Navy men in Japan, he was Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai -the tall, boyish, amiable, aristocratic, experienced (thrice Navy Minister), pro-U. S., moderate Naval Commander in Chief who last summer...