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...FLOYD SHERMAN...
...sport. "We're tired," he says. "Jim Taylor's down to 204 Ibs., and he should weigh 220. Everybody's feeling the strain." If the weary Packers win their way into the N.F.L. playoff, they will face a New York Giants team, coached by canny Allie Sherman, that is far stronger and far fresher than the squad they trounced last time around. Giant Quarterback Y. A. ("Yat") Tittle is this year's master of the long pass, the touchdown "bomb," has thrown more scores (27) than any other pro. Giant Halfback Frank Gifford is riding...
...Looking toward 1964, Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper allowed as how his party's "best chance" for success is a ticket headed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller for President and California's Senator Thomas Kuchel for Vice President...
Jackpot, Scandal. Vanity overcoming discretion, Sherman phoned the Newark Evening News to boast of his own treasure trove, and the story of his bonanza burst into headlines across the country. In Washington, Postmaster General J. Edward Day reacted hastily. He directed the printing of 400,000 more Hammarskjolds with the identical imperfect backgrounds -thus knocking down the worth of the originals to little more than the 4? they had cost at the post office. Moaned Sherman's wife: "Isn't that lousy...
...Sherman did what he could. He asked the federal courts to issue a restraining order to block the sale. But it came too late. Some 320,000 of the phony collectors' items had been snapped up in under four hours at the department's Philatelic Sales Agency before the order arrived...