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Other officers elected were: Vice-President, the Rev. Herbert R. Smith, minister of the Evangelical Congregational Church, Needham, Mass; Secretary, the Rev. John H. Wilson, retired Unitarian minister from Wilton, N.H.; Treasurer, the Rev. Arthur P. Colburn of the Pawtucket, R.I., Congregational Church; and to the Advisory Council, the Rev. Richard T. Broeg, minister of the Methodist Church of the Redeemer in Swampscott, Mass...
...summoned gathered around his desk, the President made formal and final the commitment that they and millions of other people had at first hoped for and had then expected through many anxious weeks. The President told Vice President Richard Nixon, Presidential Aides Sherman Adams and Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, and Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall that he would accept a second term if the party and the people wanted...
Immediately below Adams is his deputy, soft-spoken Major General (ret.) Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 59. Persons spent 13 years as an Army liaison man on Capitol Hill, part of that time as Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower's representative with Congress. Under Persons, as liaison men with Congress, are Administrative Assistants I. Jack Martin, 47, and Bryce Harlow, 39. Martin, onetime administrative assistant to Senator Robert A. Taft, is especially liked and respected on the Hill...
...quite a party. Phog saw his varsity soundly trounced, by the K.U. freshmen 81-71- and yet he was the happiest man in the jampacked fieldhouse. Not that Phog likes to lose, but it was pure pleasure for him to watch the biggest freshman of them all, Wilton Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs.), dunk in 42 points all by himself. In 39 years of talking tall young men into coming to Kansas for their higher education, Phog Allen has never recruited a more promising student of basketball than "Wilt the Stilt...
...general manager of a Kansas City Negro weekly, who flew east to make his pitch, 3) Professor Calvin Vanderwerf, of K.U.'s chemistry department, who passed through Philadelphia and called on Wilt's mother. Said Mrs. Chamberlain: "We've had many colleges speak to us about Wilton, but you're the first one who was a professor. I'm so happy to have someone talk about the academic side." By the end of May, Phog Allen and K.U. had won the Stilt sweepstakes. "Wilton," he said, "I know you'll be happy here...