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...SHERMAN San Francisco...
...Posen (then in Germany) to escape conscription in 1855 and became a selfless country doctor in Camden, S.C. He served gallantly as a Confederate Army surgeon. Bernard's mother was a statuesque beauty with the pluck to forget that her father's fine plantation lay gutted behind Sherman's line of march. Of her four sons, "Bernie" was the "mamma's boy," shy, chubby (his nickname was "Bunch"), quick-tempered and invariably beaten in a fight, a failing he later remedied by taking boxing lessons. As Baruch recalls it, it was a Tom Sawyerish boyhood...
...Dick was 13, the Bible was read aloud in family meetings-all the way through. Well Dick learned the old family stories-great-grandfather had owned a plantation and 35 or 40 slaves; grandfather had his cotton mill on Sweetwater Creek burned down and his slaves set free by Sherman's men, and grandmother had to flee from Marietta escorted by the family coachman, a slave named Monday Russell (because he was born on Monday); Old Slave Monday lived on to serve in that carpetbag Georgia state legislature come Reconstruction. Dick was taught to call Negroes "the colored people...
...that he would like to serve in a Government post. "I just wanted to do some good," he explained last week. "I didn't ask to be an ambassador." Straightforwardly, Gluck wrote four Republican Senators: New York's Irving Ives and Jacob Javits, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton. All four recommended Gluck, a heavy contributor to Republican campaign chests, to the Eisenhower Administration. Big campaign contributions will not get a Government post, but they may-under the Republicans as well as the Democrats-get a man's name on a list of possibilities...
Died. Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, 69, U.S.N., ret. (1947), skipper of the World War II aircraft carrier Lexington, and the last to leave her before she finally sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period...