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...part of its allure is that ancestor hunting need not be expensive: the raw material and the rewards are in every family. Moreover, the new pop genealogy addresses itself to the lives, accomplishments, peccadilloes and personalities of flesh-and-blood progenitors, not merely the who-begat-whoms. Says Lynette Sherman, president of the Chicago Genealogical Society: "We no longer look for just the birth and death dates. We want to know something about the people. This new emphasis on the individual is going to give people identity, and that's what they want...
Henry and Eleanor's sons may not exactly be lovable, but they're far from dull. Daniel Sherman plays John, Henry's favorite, very broadly, with an almost farcical glee. As "the family nothing," nicknamed a "walking pustule" by his brother Richard, Sherman gets to deliver such prize lines as "You turd." and "You're a stinker and you stink." In contrast to Sherman's comic posturing, Eric Luftman acts Richard Lionheart, Eleanor's darling, with straight-faced sobriety. Whether stiffly demanding his rights or reviling the rest of the family, he is a model of sullen, subdued rage...
Founded by Chicago Entrepreneur Nate Sherman, Midas long thrived as the number of its franchised dealers increased steadily over the years. But after Nate's son Gordon took over in 1967, a father-son conflict arose. Gordon was a University of Chicago intellectual and partial to Elizabethan English and the raising of orchids and hummingbirds. He favored a relaxed style of management that did not sit well with dad. Several dealers quit, and the internal strife began to show up in leaner profits. After a proxy fight, Sherman Sr. in 1972 sold his controlling interest to IC Industries. When...
...Roles Biologically Determined? will be discussed by Barbara Chasin, a sociologist at the School of Public Health, and Frieda Salzman, a physicist at the University of Massachusetts at 8 p.m. in the Conference Auditorium in George Sherman Union...
...since Sherman's march through Georgia has there been such a day as the day those Georgians, named Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, marched through Washington...