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...Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay sculptures in America...
...Harvard Hillel Society has elected Jerome N. Sherman '58, of Dudley House and Brookline, Mass., as president. Nathaniel H. Leff '59, of Dunster House and Brookline, Mass., was elected secretary-treasurer...
Eisenhower, through his ubiquitous mouth-piece, Sherman Adams, has refused an invitation from Mongomery's Rev. Martin Luther King to speak in the South on the problems of integration. The reason that he gave for his refusal was that he could not spare the time to "schedule a speaking engagement". The President has, however, in the past two weeks, been able to make two separate trips to Augusta, Georgia, spending a total of nine days...
...only three baseball players who have amassed more than 3,500 hits (Ty Cobb, Cap Anson, Tris Speaker); the process of photosynthesis. On the six occasions when he has muffed questions, e.g., the identity of the Republican vice-presidential candidate who died before Election Day in 1912 (James S. Sherman), Van Doren's luck and gambling skill have averted defeat...
...beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (he set up dummy trade and citizens' groups, helped keep in committee a New York State tax bill that would have cost A. & P. $2,000,000 a year). A Byoir maxim: "If the truth doesn't sound believable, don't tell...