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PENN: It was Princess Leia's [Carrie Fisher's] party, wasn...
...have a legendary reputation for impeccable news coverage during the Ed Murrow period [PRESS, Nov. 4], but its firing practices are another story, then as now. In 1937 I was taken to lunch at Delmonico's by Sterling Fisher, then head of CBS's public affairs department. He said he wanted me there because he had a nasty job to perform. He had to fire CBS Newsman H.V. Kaltenborn, who was causing too much trouble with his anti-Hitler broadcasts. In the middle of lunch, Fisher told "H.V." he was through. At this point, before dessert...
...meeting, Summers also named this year’s new Harvard College Professors. The new recipients of the title—the most distinguished a professor can attain at the College—are Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile, and Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer...
...weeks ago, I couldn't make the payroll," says Fisher. A onetime Hobart, Ind., poultry farmer, Fisher went to Florida specifically to hunt for underwater fortune. Underwater exploration has been his obsession almost from the age of eleven, when, back in Indiana, he made a homespun diving helmet out of a 5-gal. paint can and nearly drowned trying it out. After he arrived in Key West in 1970 and began salvaging, Fisher became a fabled local character on an island where there is considerable competition for such distinction. For years he lived in an old houseboat and drove...
Ever since Fisher began his Florida-coast searches, his business has been a family operation. His wife Dolores still dives, and was once a world endurance champion. Along with Taffi and Kane, another son Kim, 29, helped recover the treasure. But the mom-and-pop hunt has had its dark side. Ten years to the day before last month's discovery, the Fishers' eldest son Dirk, 21, Dirk's wife and another diver were drowned when their salvage ship, the Northwind, capsized at night during a squall...