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...first quiet triumph was a close relationship between the Administration and the jealously independent Federal Reserve System, which controls U.S. bank-credit levels and was once openly at war with Harry Truman's Treasury Department, and continued to keep aloof in George Humphrey's day. Anderson persuaded Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to drop around for informal sessions with the President, Anderson, Raymond Saulnier, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, and Presidential Adviser Gabriel Hauge. Thus, without binding Bill Martin, the Administration had its first regular forum for voicing its hopes and fears...
...life," she said, adding that though Jerry had been too busy to buy her a wedding ring, he did get her a red Cadillac. And her father, who played bull fiddle in Jerry Lee's band, didn't seem to object either. But the London press, already fed up with the antics of Britain's own rock-'n'-roll stars, was all shook up now. The Daily Mail angrily demanded that Jerry be sent back "whence he came, somewhere in the mid-belt of America's deep delinquent South." "He could and should." stormed...
...editorializing and plain old airborne nonsense. Tireless champion of all underdogs, Sherwood thought that he had found a great cause last April: New Mexico's Navajo Indians. Commentator Sherwood was soon berating the U.S. Government for freezing Navajo funds (it has not), arguing that the tribe is ill fed, ill housed (it is not), trying to prove the Indian kids are badly educated (they...
Untitled principal of the out-of-hours school is Mrs. Stephen J. Knerly, 33, onetime bright child in Cleveland elementary schools, where gifted students are fed large helpings of science, foreign languages and math in special classes. She did much of the early tilting with school officials, then, with a neighbor, organized the French course. For a fee of $5 an hour the school hired Louise Burke, a retired Cleveland French teacher. Miss Burke runs her classes without texts and entirely in French, fining youngsters a "sou" (actually 1?) when they lapse into English. Says Mrs. Knerly's daughter...
Million-Dollar Accident. Dickie Kerr disagreed. He took the discouraged boy into his home, fed him and befriended him, and made a place for his pregnant wife. "I convinced him that he wasn't much of a pitcher anyway," says Kerr. "And as a hitter he was a natural. You might say Stan's was a million-dollar accident...