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...Hampshire's Sherman Adams as Assistant to the President of the U.S. The difference between Sherm Adams and "Jerry" Persons is more of manner than method. Adams was the stern, testy New Englander, all business and no chitchat. Persons, 63, is a mellow, Scotch-sipping, storytelling Alabaman, whose years as a U.S. Army liaison man on the Hill (1933-38, 1939-49), as head of the Defense Department's Hill representatives (1948-49), and as Ike's link with Congress (1953-58) make him alert to congressional sensitivities and sensibilities. He may not manage his time...
...much in common. Each was a native Alabaman. Each worked his way through school. They met and became friends at the University of Alabama law school in the early 1940s. Each served in World War II and came home with decorations. Each became a judge. And it was in that capacity, somehow symbolic of the stresses under which the law has come in the South, that U.S. District Judge Frank Minis Johnson Jr. in Montgomery last week ordered Alabama Circuit Judge George Corley Wallace to show cause "if any there be" why he should not be punished for contempt...
Vice Admiral Charles Randall Brown, 58, commander of the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet. To Alabaman "Cat" Brown, bossing this 418,000-ton, 76-ship armada is "the best job in the whole Navy." An unruly plebe at Annapolis, he logged 300 demerits, squeezed out near the bottom of his class ('21). The exuberant Brown spirit chafed at a rash of peacetime desk jobs, boiled over in 1943. "I've got a carrier [the Kalinin Bay], and I'd like a job of work," he told Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Snapped Spruance...
...members of the United Nations often find it hard to keep their U.N. delegations up to strength. Budgets cannot stand the cost of salaries for a full complement, and qualified, self-supporting volunteers are rare. Last year Costa Rica's U.N. Ambassador Alberto Canas found one-a charming Alabaman named Henrietta Boggs, 37. Her Costa Rican qualification: marriage from 1942 to 1953 to President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Her means of support, Pepe's alimony...
...pilot-a dark, level-eyed Alabaman named Eugene W. Townsend -was one of the thousands of young men who were swept into the air by World War II. He seemed to have been born to fly; he was a quiet, controlled fellow who moved with the easy grace of a natural athlete. As a Navy fighter pilot, he fought from the Marshall Islands to the Philippines, shot down six Japanese planes, won the Navy Cross. But like thousands of other young military airmen, he had got away from airplanes fast after...