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...elections, held on Tuesday night by the seven man senior board, selected Richard L. Sherman, former assistant sports editor, to lead the paper and set up a storm of protest by other staff members...
...farm and the "unwashed savages," as he later called his parents, worked as a printer's devil for two years. When the Civil War broke out, he was among the first to enlist. Soldier Bierce did well; he served bravely at Shiloh and Chickamauga, marched into Georgia with Sherman, wound up a lieutenant. As a staff officer, he caught off-duty glimpses of such top brass as Sheridan and Grant. Of Grant's tippling, he recalled: "I don't think he took enough to comfort the enemy-not more than I did myself from another bottle." Bierce...
...Sherman H. Hawkins '51 and Edmund A. Levy '51 will direct the play. Alan C. Purves will be the producer. Tryouts for the cast will probably be held the first week following spring vacation...
Negligently, he conceded that Costello undoubtedly had an influence with Tammany, but not with him-though he admitted that Costello's friend Irving Sherman had helped him in a mayoralty < campaign. If there was corruption m his administration, well, he had been deceived...
Open Mouths. The scandal caught many of the nation's top sports editors open-mouthed in cheers for the wrong people. The authoritative Sporting News of St. Louis was off the presses and in the mail with a story naming L.I.U.'s pantherlike Sherman White, one of the bribetakers, as its "player of the year." Look hastily scratched White's name from its All-America team, chosen by the votes of 430 sportswriters. Collier's rubbed White's name from its own All-America squad in a story already in type...