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Jarman, 61, a Baptist deacon and collector of nonobjective painting, built his father's Nashville, Tenn., shoemaking firm into a $760 million-a-year shoe-and-clothing combine called Genesco Inc. As chairman, he controls some 1,500 retail outlets grouped under 50 firms, including I. Miller, Bonwit Teller, Roger Kent, Henri Bendel. Hoving, 68, stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall and looks every inch what he is: the supremely suave chairman of the grand Fifth Avenue jewelers, Tiffany...
...numerous concerts on Sunday afternoons. The Ford Dinner Program frequently provides sumptuous meals with distinguished guests, followed by talks in the cavernous Junior Common Room; prominent professors are regular guests at concentration tables. The writing Seminar and Logos, the weekly newspaper, provide an outlet for House literati, and the Deacon's Testament has been revived at Harvard's only House yearbook. On the lighter side, Kirkland posseses four billiard tables, holds an annual Bierstube (German band and all the beer you can drink), and is highly successful in interhouse athletics. The House Committee is presently negotiating a mixer with...
Sims is the spokesman for the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed Negro police organization that is spreading across the rural South and into Northern cities. He reigns over the most famous of the Deacon chapters, in Bogalusa, La., and his exploits there prompted Jet magazine to label him "The man most feared by whites in Louisiana...
...weren't for the snarl, Sims and the Deacons would not be famous today. It's the gangland reputation, the toothless sneer, that have won the man and his organization front-page coverage in newspapers across the country. As long as Sims maintains the mystique, the American press will do his proselytizing and fund-raising for him. Sims estimates that there are now 50 to 60 Deacon chapters in existence, and it's a cinch that most of these were inspired by newspaper accounts alone. Sims told me, "I don't really like publicity. I'd never talk...
Died. William McKechnie, 78, one of baseball's most successful managers, who with a gentle schoolmasterliness that made him known as "the Deacon" won pennants over a 27-year career for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), the St. Louis Cardinals (1928) and the Cincinnati Reds (1939 and 1940) and a niche in the Hall of Fame as the only man to take three teams to the top; of pneumonia; in Bradenton...