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...Alevizos, Crimson pitcher emeritus (much more impressive-sounding than "former"), best of luck. The Cubs need...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Summer With Few Smiles | 6/27/1980 | See Source »

...cannot, or will not, transfer power to a younger generation of executives except by the attrition of mortality is by definition guilty of mismanagement. The Brezhnev Politburo is like an aging board of directors that has no compulsory retirement policy, no adequate pension plan and no tradition of honoring emeritus directors. So each board member hangs on and on, becoming increasingly shortsighted as he becomes increasingly sclerotic. Such a corporation, no matter how large and powerful, would not recommend itself

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The U.S.S.R.: A Fortress State in Transition | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...world's most honored criminologists, Sheldon Glueck, Pound Professor of Law Emeritus, died in mid-March. Glueck spent his entire 38-year teaching career at Harvard until his retirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Passing... | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...William Gemmel, Cochran professor of Statistics Emeritus died in late March. Cochran authored the most widely used reference book in statistics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Passing... | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...Howard Mumford Jones, Lowell Professor of Humanities Emeritus and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1934 to 1944, died in mid-May. He was renowned as one of the leading scholars of all aspects of American culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Passing... | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

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