Abraham Lincoln sightings

[LincolnMan]

I don't know if this is a "sighting" per se but it was an unexpected reference to Lincoln while reading the book Groucho Marx, Secret Agent: A Mystery Featuring Groucho Marx by Ron Goulart. Groucho is being interviewed and is asked:

"What's your costume meant to be?"

"I'm Abraham Lincoln, obviously." Though he had applied the greasepaint moustache he used in his movies, there was no Lincolnesque beard in evidence. Instead of a stovepipe hat, he was wearing one of his old Captain Spaulding pith helmets. And over the shoulders of his tweedy autumnal sport coat, he had thrown a shawl.

"You don't look much like Lincoln."

"Neither did Abe Lincoln."

"He never, for instance, wore a pith helmet.'

"He never happened to wear one when there were photographers around, true," admitted Groucho. "But he was often seen with a shawl very much like this one draped over his careworn shoulders."

"I doubt Lincoln's shawl had "Souvenir of Youngstown, Ohio" embroidered across_"

"As a chap who's gotten himself tarted up to resemble a potential pallbearer for Orson Welles, you're in no position to cast aspersions," Groucho informed me "We might allow you to cast a few nasturtiums later in the evening, however, so stick around."


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