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From four-year-old John Hancock Hall to 211-year-old Faneuil Hall, Boston was crowded with lawyers last week. Occasion: the 75th (diamond jubilee) Anniversary of the 50,000-member American Bar Association, top organization of the legal profession and one of the major opinion makers...
Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. last week announced one of the biggest percentage returns in insurance history. The award went to Edward L. Long, 22, who set up a building partnership in Massachusetts last May with Charles K. Hammond, 24. Each took out a routine life-insurance policy on the oth er; a few weeks later, Hammond was killed in an auto wreck. On the policy, Long had paid only one premium, totaling exactly $30. His award...
Persimmons in Sparta. As Massachusetts' 55th governor, Christian Herter joins a variegated pantheon of men who have occupied the handsome old Bulfinch statehouse. The first governor was John Hancock, a vain and arrogant aristocrat who was as popular as he was inept, won nine terms in office. Poor, plain Sam Adams tried and failed to turn the Commonwealth into a "Christian Sparta." The election of David I. Walsh marked the rising tide of immigration: he was the first Irish Catholic to win the governorship. Persimmon-faced Cal Coolidge reversed the trend, turned back to Yankee conservatism. In three terms...
Every Inch a General. The second Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, hesitated hardly at all in picking Delegate George Washington to command the American army. Delegate John Hancock nursed improbable dreams of military glory for himself, but Massachusetts, which had started the war, dared not suggest one of its own for high command lest the rest of the colonies touchily let Massachusetts try to finish the war, too. Washington was a Virginian, and thus politically eligible; he had commanded troops, and furthermore he looked like a general...
...Navy Department announced a new director of the women's branch, to succeed retiring Captain Joy Bright Hancock: Commander Louise Kathleen Wilde, 42, who was assistant to the president of Rockford College, Ill. when she joined the WAVES as a lieutenant...