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...election day, when the floor of the Commodore Hotel headquarters was littered with bitten fingernails, Sherman and Rachel Adams slipped quietly away and went sightseeing at the Bronx Zoo. That night Sinclair Weeks, later to become Commerce Secretary, gallantly remarked on Rachel's fresh outdoor complexion. "We've been to the zoo to see all the animals," she explained. "Ah," said Weeks, "quite a change from the campaign." Replied Rachel: "Not so much...
This is the sort of confidence that Sherman Adams can inspire, both from below and from above. He has no greater admirer than the President. When the political demands for Adams' removal go up-Ike is likely to snort: "The trouble with those people is they don't understand integrity." And once, to a friend, President Eisenhower paid Adams the highest compliment at his command. "The only person who really understands what I am trying to do," said the President of the U.S., "is Sherman Adams...
...Through his father, Sherman Adams is de scended from the Henry Adams who left Somer set, England in 1638, settled in Braintree, Mass., and founded an American dynasty. Henry Adams' seventh son, Joseph, was the great-great-grandfather of President John Adams and the great-great-great-grandfather of President John Quincy Adams. Sherman Adams traces his lineage through Henry Adams' eighth (and last) son, Edward. *The 399-member New Hampshire house of representatives, the nations' second-largest lawmaking body, includes a representative from every incorporated township with a population of at least...
Died. Roger Steffan, 62, longtime (1929-53) vice president of the National City Bank of New York, aide to Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams as White House business manager in 1953, economic adviser to the U.S. Mission to Nationalist China on Formosa in 1954; of a heart attack; at his ranch in Vista, Calif...
...Sherman, who knew about war, said that it was hell, and Jean Paul Sartre, who doesn't know about hell, says that hell is very dreary. In this first novel, Author William Hoffman has striven to confirm both points. He has addressed himself to the honorable task of making a novel of his two-year experiences in the Army Medical Corps, European theater, and no one will doubt that he knows his war. Yet before the reader has trudged a few pages, he will hear the heavy tread of that regiment of dismounted cavalry which wears the insignia...