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...Michigan until a 220-Ib. center fell on his 135-lb. frame and broke three ribs. He studied law, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, and returned home to become an assistant U.S. attorney (in which job he convicted, among others, a young bootlegger named Sherman Billingsley, now owner of Manhattan's posh Stork Club...
Green Scum & Twisted Steel. Since the crater was first shown to outsiders (TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), its appearance has become less dramatic. There are no longer any lead-shielded, white-painted Sherman tanks lumbering about the crater. The great sheet of crackly "trinitite" (glassy melted soil) that looked like a scummy green lake has largely disintegrated; only a faint green ghost of it remains among the returning vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen...
...Fairchild Engine & Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hagerstown, Md., Chairman J. Carlton Ward Jr., 56, last week called his stockholders' meeting to order. Thin and grey as a timber wolf, Ward seemed calm, but he had good reason to be nervous. Before him sat Sherman M. Fairchild, 53, the company's founder and onetime president, who had come to Hagerstown sworn to kick Ward...
Five months ago he got a chance to strike back at Ward, who had piloted the company through the lushest days of its World War II boom. Ward had decided to retire (the board had voted him a $25,000-a-year pension for life). Sherman Fairchild (who still owned 95,000 shares) formed a committee to defeat the pension. Ward was alarmed and withdrew his plan. Fairchild went ahead with his committee. Its new purpose: to oust Ward...
Last week came the showdown. For two days, the tellers counted the proxy ballots, while Ward and Fairchild eyed each other tensely. Finally, enough votes were in for Ward to know that he was defeated (1,191,217 to 622,186). Sherman Fairchild's first act was to pick Richard Boutelle, the plant boss whom Ward had ordered out of the plant a week ago for supporting Fairchild, as the new president of the company. Fairchild would hold no office other than director. But this time he thought the president would pay some attention to his ideas...