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...Appointed as his fifth (of six) administrative assistants Sherman ("Shay") Minton, 50, defeated Senator from Indiana. Tall, black-haired, jut-jawed Mr. Minton, a 200% New Dealer, will get $10,000 a year; will not be used as liaison man with Congress-where his forthright tongue too often rasped colleagues...
...main thing is that Philip Merivale, Ina Claire and Harry Sherman are in the rarest form you could imagine. Unfortunately, Anne Burr, the Youth Congress champion, is far over-drawn, partly due to Mr. Behrman and in spots to Miss Burr's melodrama. The end of the last act is an anti-climax to an anti-climax, but when they chop that off, "The Talley Method" should settle in a comfortable theatre and stay for a good while...
...Washington's Munitions Building last week there was a new pair of legs under old William Tecumseh Sherman's ornately carved desk. Bald, 60-year-old Brigadier General George Veazey Strong, long overdue for duty away from Washington, had been transferred from the top of the General Staff's War Plans Division to command of the VII Corps Area at Omaha. His successor was a 52-year-old, brand-new brigadier general: straight-lipped, shock-haired Leonard Townsend Gerow (pronounced jehr...
...result of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain...
...trustbusting eye of the Justice Department's Thurman Arnold, this spread between farm and shop prices has looked wide enough to drive a good big Sherman Act investigation into. Last week, Arnold served notice on the food industry that the investigation was under way. First up for scrutiny were 18 "situations," ranging from fruits to fish. Sample complaints: that in some places bakers' associations kept prices a cent a loaf too high; that packers in one city upped prices an average of 5? a pound by fixing slaughtering quotas...