From: zursch@whizkid.wpd.sgi.com (Captain Coffee)
Subject: More News of The World (2 items)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:49:11 GMT


	ATLANTA (UPI) -- The song ``Dixie'' will not be played any more as
part of Atlanta Falcons football game ceremonies if stadium officials
have their way.
	Falcons spokesman Charlie Taylor said last Sunday's performance of
the song at halftime of the Falcons-New York Jets game in the Georgia
Dome was a mistake because the team adopted a policy in 1966 not the
play the song.
	Some blacks object to ``Dixie,'' written by New Yorker D.D. Emmett in
1859, on grounds it represents the old slave-holding South.
	Its peformance by local singer Daron Norwood with choreography by 100
women dancers from Birmingham prompted the unanimous passage of a
protest resolution by the majority black Atlanta City Council.
	The resolution, sponsored by Councilwoman Carolyn Long Banks, said, 
``The performance of this song showed an insensitivity on the part of
the performers and the Falcons organization.''
	But Dan Graveline, executive director of the Georgia World Congress
Center which includes the Georgia Dome, said there is no law to prohibit
the song from being sung at other Dome events.
	He said the only way the song would be banned would be through
passage of a state law prohibiting it from being sung in public
facilities.
	Graveline said he was not proposing such a law and added, ``I wonder
how many find it offensive.''



	NEW YORK (UPI) -- The famous ``With malice toward none'' paragraph of
Lincoln's second inaugural address, written in his own hand, has been
found in a Manhattan apartment and will be sold in November, it was
announced Thursday by Christie's auction house.
	Christie's said the rare manuscript was identified by Chris Coover,
its specialist in American manuscripts, after it was retrieved recently
from an autograph album found in an old cabinet during a routine estate
appraisal of the apartment's contents.
	Coover estimated the manuscript, boldly signed by Lincoln, to be
worth at least $500,000.
	``There was some interesting Victorian furniture in the apartment and
some nice Georgian silver,'' Coover said. ``Then the executor said, 'Oh,
yes, there are some letters and an autograph album in an old cabinet. 
	``He rummaged around and pulled out several old manila folders. The
first one contained the album. On the first page in Licoln's clearest
handwriting was the passage, 'With malice toward none; with charity for
all...''
	Coover said he knew instantly it was the conclusion of Lincoln's
second inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1865, almost as well known
as the Gettysburg address.
	The original manuscript of the entire speech is in the Library of
Congress but the existence of an excerpt in Lincoln's hand was recorded
in a 1953 edition of Lincoln's writings.
	``The passage had not been written about since,'' Coover said. ``It
has been forgotten for almost 40 years.''
	The apartment where the manuscript was found had been the home of a
elderly woman desceded from Joseph Wright, who was appointed minister to
Prussia by Lincoln after serving as governor of Indiana and a
congressman and senator from that state. Wright died in Berlin in 1867.
	The Lincoln manuscript was found in the album along with a letter
from Mary Todd Lincoln to Caroline Wright, Wright's wife.
	Coover said the manuscript will be sold Nov. 20 in a sale of printed
books and manuscripts. The album also contained autographs of most of
Lincoln's war cabinet and inscriptions by many senators and congressmen
and Vice President Andrew Johnson, who succeeded the slain Lincoln as
president a little more than a month after the second inaugural address.
	The final paragraph of the address reads in its entirety:
	``With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the
right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who
shall have borne the battle; and for his widow, and his orphan -- to do
all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lsting peace, among
ourselves, and with all nations.''
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