National Affairs: Man from Revenue

Resigned as Commissioner of Internal Revenue: T. Coleman Andrews, 56, formerly head of his own Richmond firm of accountants. Andrews will become chairman of the board of American Fidelity and Casualty Co., the U.S.'s biggest insurer of trucks and buses.

Andrews, son of a day laborer in a Virginia tobacco factory, went to work sweeping out a grocery for 25ยข day, rose to become a leading Richmond accountant and consultant to the state administration. A Virginia Democrat, he was recommended to the President by Virginia Ike-men, in January 1953, for the job of "reorganizing and revitalizing" the revenue service. He reduced his...

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