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Sugarplums, College. It began last month when the Bureau of Engraving and Printing turned out 120 million oblong black, brown and yellow stamps to memorialize the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Jewelry Salesman Leonard Sherman, 38, of Irvington, N.J., bought four 50-stamp sheets of the first-day Hammarskjolds, next day took them out of his drawer for a closer look. What he saw made his hands tremble: the yellow background was printed not only off-center but upside down, so that an inverted "4?" mark appeared in ghostly white 50 times on the sheet in the wrong place...
Until he could find out more about their value, Sherman decided to keep quiet about his stamps. Then, last week, he saw a small newspaper item about Gerald Clark, a collector in Ohio who had bought a sheet of the faulty Hammarskjolds, had mailed 31 of them off on letters before a friend pointed out the oddity. Clark checked with local post offices for other flawed stamps, found none, and optimistically figured that his remaining 19 stamps were worth $200,000. On that basis, Sherman figured that his intact sheet of 50 must be valued at more than...
Egloff is not the only loss. First line right end Wally Grant, center Jim Thomson, and second line left end David Sherman are also out, and Olivar will be hard-pressed to find adequate replacements...
...Rochelle's Mayor Stanley Church by a record plurality. Ohio's Robert Taft Jr., majority leader of the Ohio house and son of the late Senator, swamped Cleveland's inept Richard D. Kennedy to win an at-large seat. Utah unveiled a bright newcomer in Sherman P. Lloyd, 48, a talented Utah state senator, who clobbered Liberal Bruce Jenkins. Florida's Ed Gurney appeared attractive on television, ran as a genuine conservative to win over Democrat John Sutton in the Cape Canaveral area...
...first carrier Yorktown went down in June 1942). He then held down an assortment of desk jobs in postwar Washington, and in 1950 was named operations officer of the Sixth Fleet. That same year, General Eisenhower, who was setting up his SHAPE headquarters in Paris, wired CNO Forrest Sherman: SEND ME THE SMART EST NAVAL AVIATOR YOU'VE GOT. Ike got Anderson, made him senior U.S. officer for plans and operations...