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...likenesses of President Abraham Lincoln grew into a unique historical archive (more than 200,000 pictures of Civil War personalities), the source for the busts of the 16th President on the $5 bill and the copper 1 ?piece, who also turned up a rare photo of Assassin John Wilkes Booth attentively listening in the audience at Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address; in Manhattan...
...they used to be," says Botanist Edmund Sinnott. former dean of Yale's Graduate School. They have come to show greater respect for the kind of questions that religion-although not necessarily the Christian church-asks. "Most of the scientists I know," says Boston University Theologian Edwin Booth, "believe in the immanent principle of life in the organic universe. If they are religious, they call it God. If they are not religious, they have awe and reverence for this principle. But it isn't retired, nor is it personal. It is greater than personal-it is absolutely essential...
...lend the ultimate air of TV reality, there will be a sponsor's booth commanding a view of the stage and auditorium, and equipped, of course, with television monitors so that the sponsor will feel right at home. It will also be mercifully soundproofed so that the sponsor may flick on his own commercials without disturbing the audience below. Facing the sponsor's booth is a tier of three picture-windowed control rooms on the other side of the hall. One is for recording, one is for radio, and one is for television...
...hairdresser has to do once a week; and best of all, only the hair sits under the dryer. Still, $250 is a fairly stiff price (really fine custom wigs can cost as much as $1,500) and at first wig-wearers consisted mostly of actresses, among them Shirley Booth, Judy Holliday. Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (who lost nine of her twelve wigs in last year's Bel Air fire...
...Casino stage-successor to the Howard where "Buffalo Bill" Cody, John Wilkes Booth and Gypsy Rose Lee performed for beyond a century--has been the scene of the most riotous productions in staid New England history. Across the Casino ramp have scurried some of the best-set headliners of latter day burlesque, in some of their least-dressed performances...