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Pleased at having plucked this prize away from Lehman Bros, and Blyth & Co., who bid too low, Tri-Continental announced that its syndicate would keep a third of the shares, sell the rest. Rumor was that Newport News's President Homer Lenoir Ferguson, Annapolis man and head of the firm for 25 years, would step up to board chairman, boss the show from there, while his handsome Vice President Roger Williams, former Navy line officer, would take over as president...
...Hingham Robert S. Benshimol Patricia Dadmon, Arlington Bernard R. Benson Sybil Hart, Packer Institute Robert G. Bigelow Marian Prentiss, Columbus, Ohio Carroll Binder, Jr. Carol Jones, Wellesley Nathaniel L. Blanchard Lee Burnett, Southborough Charles M. Bliss Margaret Soule, Wellesley Richard M. Bloch Betty Hinkle, Brookline Edward J. Broderick Mary Ferguson, Clinton John C. Bullard Hephizibah McWeebles, Dunkling-on-Charles John M. Bullitt Helen Sarazin, Cambridge William E. Bunce Frances Fuhrer, Bradford Junior College John P. Burnham Jean Drake, Winchester Curtis A. Bush Ruth Thomas, Wellesley Evan Calkins Jean Fitz, Brookline Sherman B. Cawley Dorothy Warren, Beaver Jean de Chadenedes Ethel...
...charge of conspiring to protect and operate policy houses (which did an estimated $10,000,000 annual business in Detroit and have been operating unscathed for more than ten years), Judge Ferguson indicted 151 persons, including ten police lieutenants, 34 sergeants, 37 patrolmen, six detectives, Negro John Roxborough (comanager of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis), pompous ex-Mayor Dick Reading-and Prosecutor McCrea...
Seven years ago, some students at the University of Minnesota formed a Bach Society. They persuaded a genial, absentminded, popeyed music professor, Donald Nivison Ferguson, to be their conductor. Anyone able & willing to sing Bach for three hours a week could join. The Bachsters welcomed not only students, but socialites, white-collar workers of Minneapolis and St. Paul, a telephone lineman. Once a year the Bach Society held an "open meeting," free to the public...
...Donald Ferguson, 57, has been at Minnesota 27 years, is program annotator for the Minneapolis Symphony, author of a widely used textbook, A History of Musi cal Thought. On the podium he conducts with fury, grunting and grimacing while his hair seems to stand on end. Once in a gymnastic passage his baton flew out of his grasp. Once in a difficult passage, Professor Ferguson grew so pleased that he entirely forgot to lead. Neither time did the chorus get out of the groove...