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Covered Wagon Co. has a history typical of the industry. Founder and president is bland, ruddy-chopped Arthur George Sherman, 46, son of a manufacturing biologist in whose plant he went to work in 1911. In 1928 he bought a trailer to take his five children camping. It was supposed to unfold into a tent in ten minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged...
Your article states that Lindbergh was the first civilian authorized to receive one. But Dr. Mary Walker, whether authorized or not for "service rendered during the War," received hers in January 1866. And as she was man enough to brave the taunts and jeers of Sherman's men by wearing pants, I judge that she earned...
...Philo Sherman Bennett Prize, of $50, for the best essay discussing the principles of free government, to Harold Winkler '36, of Lawrence...
Trim, well-groomed Dorothy Arnold, 24, also known as Doris Sherman and Dixie, insisted that she had never prostituted herself. Virginia-born, she left school at 14, eloped at 17 with a carnival man. In New York he made a living sefling gowns and lingerie, then took to opium and retired. Meantime a girl she knew had begun bringing men to her apartment. Soon Dorothy Arnold took up this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually...
Death took the presidents of five life insurance companies. Though no one has yet been named to succeed Ulysses Sherman Brandt of Ohio State Life. Massachusetts Mutual elected Bertrand James Perry after the death of William Henry Sargeant last December. Hartford's Phoenix Mutual picked Arthur M. Collens, a clergyman's son, who had been vice president under the late Archibald Ashley Welch. Insurance tragedy of the year befell Penn Mutual's William Adger Law, who was accidentally shot and killed by his good friend Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco...