Last Days of Lincoln by Mark Van Doren on Broadway
Van Doren presents a 1954 play covering the last two months of Lincoln’s life with scenes in Washington City Point and Richmond. The cast of about 30 portrays allies and foes as they navigate Lincoln’s lenient policy and race issues with compassionate, noble humanity at its core.
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Lincoln
Mark van Doren
Hill & Wang
van Doren
Washington
City Point
Richmond
Peterson House
The Watch That Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan
MacLennan presents a Montreal tale where George learns life’s value through two ill fated companions Catherine and Jerome. Jerome returns alive while Catherine battles illness and the cast confronts fate, faith in life, and the role of medicine.
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Hugh MacLennan
Scribners
George
Catherine
Jerome
Montreal
Harry
MacLennan
McGill
United States
Solve-A-Crime Solution Solves a Cold Case Clue
Vernon Gray is awake and tries to guide you to belove as you search for a switch. The lamp bulb remains hot when you touch it, hinting at recent activity and a hidden motive behind the crime.
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Vernon Gray
Belove
Dinesen Aims to Write Forever After NYC Visit
Isak Dinesen, the Danish writer born Baroness Christence Blixen Fincke, spoke in New York about her craft and fame. She described storytelling as rooted in setting and air, recalled Africa and Kenya, and praised cities like Rome Paris and London as home.
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New York
Isak Dinesen
East Side
William Dinesen
Our
West
Baroness Christence Karen Blixen- Finecke
Dinesen
Blixen
Africa
Ford Foundation Fund For the Advancement of Education
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Washington
American Academy and National Institute
America
Kenya
Denmark
Russia
Germany
England
France
Hans Christian Andersen
Kierkegaard
Rome
Paris
London
Flamboyant Jim Fisk in a savory portrait of a sharp and showy rake
Swanberg profiles Jim Fisk a brash 19th century financier who rose from a Brattleboro packing trade to New York power, shaping Erie stock schemes, courting Jay Gould and Daniel Drew, and clashing with Vanderbilt. The book paints a captivating, controversial life and asks why people liked him.
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Jim Fisk
W. A. Swanberg
Scribners
Josie Mansfield
Ned Stokes
Beau Brummel
New York
Fisk
Stokes
Josie
Grand Central Hotel
Brattleboro
Vermont
New Hampshire
Lucy
Springfield
Mass
Boston
Jordan Marsh
Fisk & Belden
Daniel Drew
Erie Railroad
Grand Opera House
Jay Gould
Drew
Vanderbilt
Nast
Greeley
Samuel Bowles
Boss Tweed
Swanberg
Composer Gould Paid Twice For St. Lawrence Opening Music
Morton Gould reportedly received 7500 for The St. Lawrence Suite used at the Cornwall opening ceremony. Ontario Hydro Commission says 3500 covered by them while New York Power Authority paid 4000. Gould denies personal receipt of full amount and says the figure may include band costs.
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Toronto
Morton Gould
St. Lawrence
Cornwall
Ontario
James Duncan
Ontario Hydro Commission
Robert Moses
New York
Doused Driver Honolulu Traffic Fine for Inattention
Edward L. Asbill was fined $20 in traffic court for backing his car off a Cis planter and into a family car due to inattention to driving.
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Honolulu
Edward L. Asbill
Stamps in the News highlights and Nigeria stamp contest
The column notes Switzerland’s four stamp designs plus a seven color souvenir sheet for transport and education themes. Nigeria plans a four denomination stamp set for Independence with a world design contest offering 100 pounds per winning design. Israel issues Sholom Aleichem stamp among rare personalities. Ghana overprints parts of covers deemed unauthorized. Ethiopia issues stamps for the United Nations Economic Conference in Africa featuring Haile Selassie and the U N emblem.
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Switzerland
House of Transport and Communications
St. Gall
University of Geneva
Nigeria
Ting
Nigerian Independence Stamp Committee
Africa
Israel
Sholom Aleichem
Weizman
Herzl
Maimonides
Rothschild
Einstein
Ethiopia
United Nations Economic Conference On Africa
Haile Selassie
U. N
Addis Ababa
Music and film scores link past and present across decades
A survey traces how Victor Herbert and Walt Disney integrated music with film, noting Herbert's early full-orchestra score for a film and Disney's 1930s Grand Canyon Suite project with Grofe. It connects Gershwin, Dvorak, and Bohemian traditions, and recalls Herbert's ties to Dvorak and the Carnegie Hall premiere.
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Victor Herbert
Herbert
Walt Disney
Disney
Ferde Grofe
Grand Canyon
James Algar
Grofe
Colorado
Painted Desert
Disneyland Records
Munich
Symphonie Orchester Graunke
Frederick Stark
Arizona Highways
Paris
Bert Shefter
Dan Lube
Heindorf
Warner Bros. Orchestra
Gershwin
Paul Whiteman
Erich Leinsdorf
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Antonin Dvorak
New World Symphony
Capitol
Dvorak
United States
Nanonsense
Conservatory
Carnegie Hall
UT Best Sellers List Returns Classic Titles
A reader compiled UT Best Sellers featuring Doctor Zhivago by Pasternak Lolita by Nabokov From the Terrace by Oates Exod US by Uris The Ugly American by Lederer and Burdick Nonfiction Only in America by Golden Aku Aku by Heyerdahl Twixt Twelve and Twenty by Boone Wedemeyer Reports The Coming of the New Deal by Schlesinger.
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O'Hara
Exodus
Uris
Lederer & Burdick
America
Golden
Aku-Aku
Heyerdahl
Boone
Wedemeyer Reports
Schlesinger
Welfare becomes largest income source in Texas counties
Alvin Burger of the Texas Research League said welfare checks are the biggest single income source in 84 of Texas 254 counties. His staff is studying how well welfare programs help families move toward self support, with the Texas Research League described as a private fact finding and survey group.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Alvin Burger
Texas Research League
Texas Bankers Assn
Lincoln lighting lesson shown at memorial through film work
A photographer demonstrates how lighting alters Lincoln's expression using the memorial statue. Donald Hyatt of NBC scripted a sequence for Meet Mr. Lincoln showing compassionate, devilish, and powerful moods with varied lighting while cameras move to capture changing facial cues.
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Lincoln
Lincoln Memorial
National Shrine
Washington
Daniel Chester French
Donald Hyatt
National Broadcasting Co
Banker Trial Is Delayed In Greenville Case
The federal case against Luther Clay Elrod Jr., former Greenville National Bank vice president, is postponed as an auditor’s exam affects grand jury timing. Elrod faced charges of unlawfully filling a note for 70,782.53 and marking other notes paid.
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Greenville
S.C
U.S. Atty
Albert Bull
Luther Clay Elrod Jr
Stands To Get $10 From Town In Wakefield
Donald T. Young, 23, will receive $10 from Wakefield for abstaining from liquor and tobacco. The Jonathan Nichols Temperance and Tobacco Fund, set up in 1883, pays young men ages 16 to 21 ten dollars for abstaining. Young is the first applicant in five years. the fund has seen only 10 applicants in 44 years.
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Wakefield
Mass
Donald T. Young
One of
Jonthan Nichols
Nichols
Young
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