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...Hungarian-born emigre journalist, Stefan Lorant. The book includes more than 100 photographs of Lincoln, many of them never before published; some 300 photographs of Lincoln's associates, advisers, generals, friends and enemies. One remarkable sequence is a photographic record of Lincoln's transformation from a rather smug frontier lawyer (Picture No. 1) to the brooding savior of the Union (Picture No. 2 taken on a broken plate five days before he was shot). Before Editor Lorant nobody had ever thought to put this sequence together, in part, he believes, because many of the original photographs were...
Sculptors at first were smug: no one expects a shortage in stone, wood or plaster. But last fortnight they got a jolt: a Government order specifying that after Jan. 1 U.S. foundries could cast no more sculpture in bronze...
...when he said he was New York City's 99th mayor (correct: 103rd, counting acting mayors). Encyclopedia and $25 went to Questioner Maury Maverick, ex-Mayor of San Antonio. Sunny Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron turned up in sunny Miami bundled up in an overcoat and a smug grin. Michigan's Governor Murray Van Wagoner signed up for rhumba lessons. His abstemious predecessor, Luren D. Dickinson, 82, announced that if he got "a call from God" he would run for office again. "I've heard nothing from Heaven yet," he added...
Shanghai is two cities: one a sprawling, sinful Oriental beehive of nearly 3,500,000 Chinese, the other the 60,000 foreigners living along the Whangpoo in the snug, smug plutocracy of the International Settlement and the more raffish French Concession. Since the Japanese took over the Chinese city in 1937, the Settlement has been an island in a sea of intrigue and guerrilla warfare. Round it have prowled gunmen, tough, graft-hungry Japanese soldiers, the gangster bravos and police of the puppet Nanking Government...
...President Roosevelt keeps on domestic affairs wore a worried look last week. Congress was bucking in harness. Congressmen were as frightened over price-control legislation as local businessmen in their States were smug over rising prices. Yet the need for control was apparent; inflation was only a few hops & skips and one big jump away; already the defense program was costing the U.S. perhaps one-third more than necessary...