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When Secretary Marion Folsom and his colleagues in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare began looking for a successor to Education Commissioner Samuel Brownell, one name kept cropping up over and over again: Superintendent Lawrence Gridley Derthick of Chattanooga. Last week President Eisenhower, who had once heard Derthick hold forth at a Columbia Teachers College seminar, announced that Derthick...
...absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept it up from supermarket to street corner for 4½-hours. Then, with a quick stop to vote at the Lookout Mountain schoolhouse above Chattanooga, he flew back to Washington...
RAILROAD MERGER between Louisville & Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway has been recommended by ICC examiner. Under deal calling for stock swap, L. & N. (which already owns 75% of smaller road) will take over N.C. & St. L., combine operations along 5,777 miles of track through 13 Southern and Midwestern states. Though labor unions and Nashville civic groups oppose merger, two roads say it will save $3,000,000 annually in operating costs...
...nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...
...amount of southbound traffic on the single-track line, and especially because the stubborn Confederate conductor of the captured train pursued him so closely on foot, handcar, switching engine and reversed locomotive that there was never time to do a thorough job of sabotage. Captured only ten miles from Chattanooga, Andrews and seven of his men were hanged, and the rest thrown into prison. All of the raiders were awarded the first Congressional Medals of Honor in U.S. history...