rwo-aEOPoRD (Oregon) mail tribune
Thursday. DiMtnbr 1,
College President Recalls Impression
Left by Seeing Abe Lincoln in Cof im
H. D. QUIGG
United Presi CorrespondtBt (,
New York OJ.R) The gentle
man with the blue eyes, the
stand-up collar, the cigar at
pert tilt between two fingers,
sat bolt upright at this rolltop
desk and remembered 'way back
in 1365.
He remembered -a man in a
coffin.
"I can see that face yet," he
said. "Gaunt . . . homely . .-. but
there was something in his face
that was really spiritual, even
fo death. It has stayed with me
all my life-4is face the spirit
ual part of it. O O
"To see such an ugly face, and
to have it give you an impres
sion that was something beyond
human, was . . . well, was a
counterpoise," said the blue
eved gentleman. In this, the in
spiration was intensified. It was
bevond human. It has lasted
with me all my lifetime. It, was
probably the most spiritual
thing in my life."
The man in "the coffin was
Abraham Lincoln.
The gentleman doing the re
membering, at the desk where
he presides every day as head
o,a. college, was Dr. Maurice J.
L?Wi.
Tomorrow, Dr. Lewi will whiz
past a minor milestone. He will
be 93 yeafj old. That would seem
to calFiof' something of a celebration"
"Celebration? No sir. I don't
want any more," said Dr. Lewi.
"They used to give me parties.
Now, I've eschewed all that. If
I live to be a hundred, then they
can give me a banquet." j
There's little doubt around
the New York College of Podia
try, which Dr. Lewi, an M.D.,
founded in 1912 and of which
he's president and 'director of
instruction, that the banquet
will be given.
He smokes eight cigars a day,
eats "everything," Chas scotch-and-soda
before dinner, dry
chablis with the meal, puts in
five days a week on the job,
writesn historical-medical trea
tises, (makes speches, plays
poker ,:and whist maybe three
times a week at the New York
BridgesWhist Club (which he
founded in 1906), attends meet
ings of the Albany Society of
New York (which he founded
in 1893). .0
He was 8 when he saw Lin
coln's body lying in state in the
capitol in Albany, N. Y. He went
twice through the long double
line to see the face in the coffin.
"People were sobbing, their
handkerchiefs were out, and you
could hear their voices, filled
with tears, as they walked up
the steep hill."
"I've seen practically every
President since then," he said.
"And I knew many of them per
sonally. I knew Garfield, Cleve
land intimately, Harrison, Teddy
Roosevelt he mentions me in
his autobiography and the lat
ter Roosevelt.
Dr. Lewi was a medical wit
ness at the execution of Presi
dent McKinley's assassin and at
tended the post mortem exami
nation.
q'Thi one of 14 children, all of
whom, with the exception of
two, lived into their 70s and 80s.
My baby sister is alive at 87.
My baby brother is 85, and he's
known to his companions," said
the doctor, huffing out a chuckle
of -cigar smoke, "as Lewi the
14th." .
18th Mistrial Motion
Filed in Pong Trial
Portland U.P.) The attor
ney for Sherry Fong yesterday
made his 18th motion for a mis
trial as the retrial of the Port
land woman accused of first de
gree murder went into its 12th
day. O
Irvin Goodman said his latest
motion was based on "continu
ous prejudicial misconduct on
the part of the prosecution." The
motion followed a xross-examin
ation question in which Deputy
District Attorney Howard Lon-
ergan asked a defense witness
about Mrs. Fong and narcotics.
Circuit Judge Alfred P. Dob-
son refused to consider the mo
tion today, stating that we ve
had two failures through errors
. . . I'm doing my level best
this time to see that the trial is
completed and that this case
goes to the jury."
Mrs. Fong and her husband
are accused of the slaying of 16-
year-old Diane Hank.
Merrifield, Morgan
In Political Preview
Salem (U.R) Ao preview
of the coming political cam
paigns was given ; Willamette
university students yesterday
when State Sen. John C. F. Mer
rifield of Portland Republican,
and Howard Morgan of M o n
mouth, chairman of the State
Democratic Central committee,
debated which party should con
trol the 1957 Oregon Legisla
ture. Sen. Merrifield said the fact
that Oregon is first in secondary
education in the nation; first in
hourly wages paid to workers;
had the finest state institutions,
civil service, retirement plan
and highway program should be
sufficient proof of the Republi
can control of the last several
legislative sessions.
Morgan quoted newspaper
disappointment in the 1955 Leg
islature for "lack of leadership"
and blamed Republican Gov.
Paul L. Patterson. He accused
Republicans of shunning .-exper
ienced Democratic leadership
because of partisanship, citing
failure to name Sen. Robert D.
Holmes of Gearhart to the chair
manship of the Senate Education
Committee which he had headed
in the 1953 session.
Chicaeo (U.R) A 204-pound
Hampshire owned by McGuire
Hampshire Farm, Wisner, Nebr.,
has been chosen grand champion
barrow of the International Live
stock Exposition.
McMinnville (U.R) The 14th
annual Pacific Coast Turkey Ex
hibit will open here Dec. 6 for
a four-day run.
Harriman Criticisms
Declared Dangerous
Chicago U.R) National
Republican Chairman Leonard
Hall said yesterday that Demo
crat Averell Harriman's criti
cisms of the administration for
eign policy are "-dangerous."
Hill, here for a meeting of the
GOP National Committee, told a
news conference that Gov. Harri
man's statements are "in my op
inion, a disservice to his party."
The New York governor, a
possible" Democratic presidential
candidate has been outspoken
among Democrats in criticising
the Eisenhower administration's
foreign policy record.
Hall saidiecfeels the time ele
ment in President Eisenhower's
decision on whether to run again
is "not important." He said it
would be all right if the decision
were not made,-until late Febru
ary or early March. . .
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Anderson, Ind. (U.R) Aster
Bedweli, hurt when a log rolled
downhill and struck him in a
freak accident, was treated for
shock and additional injuries
when the ambulance rushing him
to the hospital collided with a
car.
Ike Hopes Chiang
Changes Decision
United Nations. N.Y. 4U.R)
President Eisenhower still hopes
that Generalissimo -Chiang Cai
shek will withdraw his theat to
veto U.N. membership for Outer
Mongolia, both for Nationalist
China s own sake and for the
United Nations, American
sources said yesterday.
pfie President was said to
have informed the Nationalists
that their own position in the
United Nations will be shaken
badly if they persist in their
present determination.
A veto n Outer Mongolia
also could scuttle the entire
package plan to admit 18 addi
tional members to the world
body.
President Eisenhower has
made two appeals to Chiang to
change his position. The first
was said to have been turned
down.
No reply to the second has
been received.
(See Story on Page 9)
NOTHING'S SAFE
Washington. Ind. (U.R) Ap
parently even an empty safe
isn't safe any more. A huge safe
containing 82,500 was stolen
from a local grocery store and
later found empty along the rail
road track. Police returned to
the station to get a camera to
photograph the scene. When they
returned, they found someone
had stolen 'the evidence.'
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