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Died. Frank Sherman Land, 69, a Kansas City banker, onetime (1954) Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America, founder of DeMolay (the Shrine's youth organization), trustee of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.; of a pulmonary edema; in Kansas City...
...American League had its share of weird happenings, make no mistake. Take the pennant winners, the Chicago White Sox. The Sox last won a flag 40 years ago. And they did it this season with the weakest bunch of hitters in the major leagues. Catcher Sherman Lollar, with 20 home runs, was their one and only slugger. Once the Chisox treated themselves to an 11-run inning with the benefit of just...
...Milestone Plantation was also the turning point-upward. The President still had his share of troubles, including "the most hurtful, the hardest, the most heartbreaking'' decision of all: asking the resignation of his staff chief, Sherman Adams, who had accepted hotel hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have...
...policy, there was Treasury Secretary Anderson, a strong man who, unlike Humphrey, would not consider undercutting the President's program. To help the President sell his program to Congress, there was Major General Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, a genial, Scotch-sipping and thoroughly efficient Alabaman who succeeded flinty Sherman Adams as chief of the White House staff. Where Sherman Adams had long been a congressional cuss word, Jerry Persons was a longtime congressional favorite. Where Adams had let the merest handful of visitors get past him to see the President, Persons began opening the door. "This place is becoming...
DISPUTED RULING by CAB allows financial Wheeler-Dealer Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to control West-Coast-based, non-sked Transocean Air Lines while it already controls Northeast Airlines. In a 4-1 opinion, CAB declared Odium violated Sherman Antitrust Act, but said illegal action was "outweighed by public interest...