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...years in office, the White House last week was headed for a new pace and temper in its vital inner workings. Five days after flinty New Hampshireman Sherman Adams took to television (surprising some viewers with his warmth) to announce his retirement as the President's chief of staff, the President named Adams' successor: Alabama's Wilton Burton Persons, 62, Adams' admiring but totally dissimilar deputy. With Persons in charge, said a White House wag, the difference would be like that between hard cider and mellow bourbon...
...stayed in the Army while studying business administration at Harvard, and wound up as a congressional liaison man in the War Department. There, in the early 1930s, he met and became a favorite companion of Major Dwight Eisenhower, working just down the corridor in the office of Chief of Staff Douglas Mac-Arthur. In 1938 Persons breezed through the Army's Command and General Staff School. During World War II, he moved up to major general, was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill, did his job so well that Chief of Staff George Marshall refused...
Reorganized. Where Adams had only one deputy-Persons-Staff Chief Jerry Persons will have three. Oklahoma City Publisher Bryce Harlow, 42, previously Persons' Capitol Hill assistant, becomes Deputy Assistant to the President for Congressional Affairs; former Chicago Alderman and Republican Mayoralty Candidate Robert Merriam, 40, becomes Deputy Assistant for Interdepartmental Affairs; a third deputy, still to be named, will act as Persons' immediate assistant. Leading prospect: Treasury Undersecretary Fred Scribner of Maine...
...G.O.P. also has points in its favor. This year the Democrats themselves have unleashed the specter of a Tammany Hall that calls the shots even for the Governor: at the August state convention, Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio humbled Harriman, rumbled through his own personal choice for the U.S. Senate nomination, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan (TIME, Sept. 8). Harlem's powerful Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., is running on both tickets and, particularly in the wake of Democrat Orval Faubus' antics, could conceivably switch 30,000 Harlem votes to the Republicans. A final special advantage: many...
...Monday morning's two-alarm blaze at the Varsity Club by the Fire Marshal's office continued yesterday. Officials of the Fire Department emphasized that the investigation is routine and normally takes several days. The Fire Marshal's office is usually called in on multiple alarm fires, Deputy Chief William Crimmens of the Cambridge Fire Department explained. He does not expect that any criminal charges will be brought as a result of the investigation...