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...Just ten years after he won his first national foot-racing Championship, 32-year-old Reggie Pearman ran Olympic 400-Meter Champion Charley Jenkins out of his shoes and won the Mel Sheppard 600 in 1:11. Less than an hour later, he anchored a Pioneer Club mile-relay team that outlegged the N.Y.A.C. and set a new Millrose record...
...this way", said California's Democratic Representative Harry Sheppard last week. "The patronage committee is charged with taking care of Democrats. Period." Sheppard was explaining the action, just completed, of the House Democratic Patronage Committee in firing a Negro employee of the House post office and a Negro member of the Capitol police force. Cause for dismissal: both had received their appointments through New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Negro who supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President because of his civil-rights record...
...Powell was no longer considered a Democrat, what about Mississippi's pure-white Democratic Representative John Bell Williams, who backed States'-Righter T. Coleman Andrews against Adlai Stevenson? Was that a case of another color? Well, said Sheppard, his group had not "as yet gone through the entire employment category and classified Democrats v. Republicans...
...rest. Mindful of the dismal failure of 1954's sad-sack flat look, Dior had turned out a collection of slinky new gowns that puff up the bosom, pinch down the rump, swoop low around the neckline. Exulted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "Dior has designed a collection for the men this time. The kept lady look. The undressed look...
After a good deal of talking, Sheppard's section finally decided to abandon, at least temporarily, any historical or philosophical approach to science. They chose instead to examine a book by E. Bright Wilson, chairman of the Chemistry Department, a man who is watching the experiment "very closely...