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Scene III: the Sherman. The Wallace camp set to work in earnest. Their pre-convention count of solid, first-ballot votes had stood at 200. By Wednesday morning it rocketed to 350. All day long delegates streamed in & out of P.A.C.'s Sherman Hotel headquarters...
...order of preference, was: 1) Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes; 2) Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas; 3) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John G. Winant. Other candidates: the Senate leader, Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young...
...books were on sale last week which together furnished a convenient checklist of the causes of human infertility. Fertility in Men (Lippincott; $3.50) was wrapped in a blue dust jacket; Fertility in Women (Lippincott; $4.50), in pink. Men is by Lieut. Commander Robert Sherman Hotchkiss of Manhattan; Women is by Dr. Samuel Lewis Siegler of Brooklyn Women's Hospital. With their help, a good doctor should be able to help about half of the childless couples who consult him to get into the market for blue or pink layettes...
Languages, transfers, and final exams have conspired to wreak havoc with last term's starting lineup. First baseman Bob Slattery and third baseman Bill Lutz are now in Midshipmen's School, while center fielder George Boston, catcher Bill Harding, and right fielder Sherman Clark, the three leading hitters of last term's outfit, and the only ones who topped 300, are all ineligible during the summer term...
...bill contained just 83 words, one of the shortest ever to be dropped into the House hopper. It said simply that the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts, as amended, shall not be construed to "apply to the business of insurance." Thus, just 17 days after the U.S. Supreme Court broke a 75-year-old precedent in holding that insurance is subject to the antitrust laws (TIME, June 12), the House moved last week to nullify the ruling...