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...political soothsayers skipped a heartbeat as Ike, on his way to his appointment with Harry Truman, stopped in the White House lobby to look at a painting called The Peacemakers. In the picture are Abraham Lincoln, General Grant, the last professional soldier to become a U.S. President, and General Sherman, a professional soldier who refused a presidential nomination. Ike said that he had been discussing the picture recently. He pointed up to a fourth man in the picture, Admiral David Dixon Porter, and said with a poker face: "This is the one I couldn't remember...
...world of peephole journalism, there is no more beautiful relationship than that between Columnist Walter Winchell and Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's famed Stork Club. Oklahoman Billingsley dates the beginning of his club's fabulous success from the day Winchell first came in and pronounced it "the New Yorkiest place in town." Since then Winchell has always had his own table there, and uses the Stork as his night office. There, he has planned many of the crusades which have gradually promoted him in his own esteem from gossip reporter to the foremost champion of human rights...
...President also made some appointments. To succeed the late Admiral Sherman as Chief of Naval Operations, he picked...
...Just before his death Admiral Sherman visited the dictator of this country to negotiate for strategic military bases...
Living History. The volume published last week contains the first two Gospels (Matthew and Mark). The exegesis of Matthew is by Episcopal Dean Sherman E. Johnson of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, the exposition by Dr. Buttrick. The exegesis of Mark is by Episcopal Professor Frederick C. Grant of Union Theological Seminary, and the exposition by Methodist Professor Halford E. Luccock of Yale Divinity School. The other scholars are of similar high standing...