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...headlines, the Dow-Jones stock averages tumbled 4.91 points in an hour, but increasingly optimistic medical bulletins soon had Wall Street-and everybody else-feeling better. Major John Eisenhower, driving to Florida for a vacation, was told it would be all right to keep going. White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, visiting in Vermont, was told that he could stay in New England the rest of the week, as planned...
...their quarters in Japan. A court-martial convicted Mrs. Covert of the ax murder of her husband, an Air Force master sergeant, in England. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that their military convictions and life sentences for murder were valid, with Justices Tom Clark, Harold Burton, Stanley Reed. Sherman Minton and John Marshall Harlan in the majority, and Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black and William Douglas in the minority. (Justice Felix Frankfurter reserved his opinion, noting blandly that "wisdom, like good wine, requires maturing...
Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...
...Sherman Adams LL.D...
Citation: "The greatest tribute to our democracy is that in America we have men like Sherman Adams to whom we can turn to lead us in our public affairs, and it is also a tribute to our democratic instincts that as a people we do turn to such...