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Died. John Augustus Larson, 72, Canadian-born psychiatrist who, while doing research with the Berkeley, Calif., police force in 1921, correlated medical devices measuring skin temperature, blood pressure and breathing rate to develop the first lie detector; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn...
...sensitive job of getting Comsat off the ground belongs to two men: Chairman Leo D. Welch and President Joseph V. Charyk. Welch, 66, a former chairman of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is concentrating on Comsat's finances, running interference on Wall Street and with the communications industry. Canadian-born Charyk, 44, an aeronautics expert and former Under Secretary of the Air Force, oversees the company's technical operations. No other corporate officers have ever been handed so many varied problems so fast. They have had to handle the housekeeping chores of starting a new company from scratch...
...Consolidated, which earned $13.5 million last fiscal year and so far is doing 23% better this year, want to merge? In 20 years, Canadian-born Chairman Nathan Cummings, 68, formed Consolidated into an efficiently linked empire, from packing plants and factories to 421 stores. Vacationing last week in Gstaad, Switzerland, Cummings observed that the merger would increase stock values for Consolidated shareholders (including himself), provide even better marketing skills for the food company. He insists that he will never retire. But acquaintances, pointing to his age (68), believe that he will welcome turning his creation over to another hard-gunning...
...grim or sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto, Maureen Forrester, who divide the songs and the honors between them...
...Dorchester Hotel was crammed with stuffed beavers, scarlet-coated Mounties, feathered Indians, and R.A.F. trumpeters announcing the roast beef. Moist-eyed press lords bawled Happy Birthday to You and Land of Hope and Glory. All of which seemed only proper for a party given by Roy Thomson, the Canadian-born press lord who owns more newspapers than anyone else, for Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, another Canadian-born press lord, who long since established himself as one of journalism's greats...