Dyke Plugger

In 1925 Cincinnati called from Washington Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, director of Public Buildings & Public Parks, to become its city manager. Ably did City Manager

Sherrill manage Cincinnati for $25,000 per year, until last month when he resigned to enter the Kroger chain grocery business (TIME, May 5). Last week, after Lieut. Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant 3rd, Washington's present Director of Public Buildings & Public Parks had refused the post, Cincinnati found its new manager in the person of Clarence Addison Dykstra, 47, Ohio-born citizen of California, a man great in theory and practice. Theory: he taught economics at Ohio State University, political science at the University of Kansas and University of California, Los Angeles. Practice: he was secretary of Cleveland's Civic League, of Chicago's City Club, a member of the Los Angeles Board of Public Works and head of Los Angeles' Personnel Department. His wife is vice president of the Southern California League of Women Voters. They have a daughter Elizabeth, a son, Franz Schubert, named for his father's favorite composer. Manager Dykstra's mother named him Addison while she was reading the Spectator Papers. Last week in Cincinnati he declared that he was a descendant of the semi-legendary Dutch boy who plugged a leaking dyke with his finger, explained: "Finger-in-dyke--hence the name Dykstra."

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