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...from Potman's Switch. The bill capped a period of considerable confusion, if not chaos, in Washington over policy toward bank mergers. The problem was that, with merger applications coming in at the rate of 160 a year, the legislative branch and the judiciary were unable to agree on ground rules for approving them. The Manufacturers Hanover move, like other mergers of the time, was cleared with three regulatory agencies, the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The three agencies, following Congressional dictates set down in the bank merger...
Greeting a lady acquaintance in Tucson, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 53, leaned to kiss her, and she drew back startled. "Don't worry," he joked. "I'm not the one with the cold." He was almost the only one without it. Texas Congressman Wright Potman, 71, announced proudly from Bethesda Naval Hospital that he had a cold "just like the President's." Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 62, checked into Walter Reed Army Hospital with laryngitis, followed by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 48, with a "respiratory infection." Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, 47, and New York...
Baron Snell, a onetime ploughboy, stable groom and potman who later became a Fabian Socialist and is chairman of the British Ethical Union led the Labor Opposition's attack. "A complete mess has been made," he declared, "of one of the most honorable tasks ever entrusted to a Government...
Spilsbury Sniff. Never a crime of "Spilsbury calibre" was the "Rats" murder but last week Britain's real-life Sherlock Holmes, the great criminal pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury (TIME, March 4 et seq.), was called on a case exactly to his taste when the potman of a pub in South London went nosing down into a cellar disused for years. Next door to the pub is the Old Surrey Theatre, now being torn down but in Queen Victoria's day the mecca of thrill-thirsty folk who loved to see dramas of ripe, purple blood and thunder...
...potman last week found in the pub cellar the sort of thing that used to occur on the nearby stage half a century ago. Some villain had struck down a middleaged, grey-haired man, rolled him up in curtains, then in linoleum, finally in carpets and tied the big bundle with a rope. When Sir Bernard Spilsbury arrived the usual London headlines suggested that not even this murder trail could be too cold for his keen, Sherlocking nose. Sniffed he: "I should say this man was killed about 1885 and was at that time about 55 years old. There...