2/11/46 - Lincoln Memorial
George Skadding

On Abraham Lincoln's 137th birthday, the Civil War president's stature had only grown.  More books were written about him in 1945 than about any other U.S. statesman, past or current.  In a poll released the week before this issue appeared, with the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., on the cover, the former president's popularity was greater than George Washington's, even in the South.  His memorial had become a shrine where every year thousands of Americans went to stand in a hushed moment of tribute to the "Great Emancipator." 
