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...tapped Goldberg's No. 2 man, Under Secretary W. (for William) Willard Wirtz. Lawyer Wirtz, 50, is a veteran Washington hand who became a member of the War Labor Board at 31. As a law professor at North western University from 1946 to 1954 and a law partner of Adlai Stevenson's from 1955 to 1961, he specialized in labor law, served as an arbitrator in many labor-management disagreements...
Born. To William McCormick Blair Jr., 45, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and a former law partner of Adlai Stevenson, and Catherine ("Deeda") Gerlach Blair, 30, stately Chicago socialite: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen...
...into which it was born in 1922. Though it operates in 50 states and Canada, the company has never considered moving its headquarters out of Bloomington, and all but one of its twelve directors still live in surrounding McLean County. State Farm executives have strong family ties: Board Chairman Adlai H. Rust, 70, and President Edward B. Rust, 43, are father and son, and Vice President Herbert L. Mecherle is the son of Founder George Jacob Mecherle. After World War II, when State Farm decided to decentralize its sales and claim work among 18 regional offices, it spotted most...
...First of all," said Adlai Stevenson not long ago, when asked about the United Nations' latest African problem, "I find very few people who even know where Ruanda-Urundi is or what...
There is still a lot of loyalty in a lot of people." "I Know Where to Go." Buckley lives by loyalty. He distrusts anyone who thinks politics has anything to do with ideals or abstractions. He dismisses fellow Democrats Adlai Stevenson ("a prima donna"), Estes Kefauver ("a lulu"), and such reformers as Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman ("Give them an inch and they'll take a mile...