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...Greek chorus of money managers who assert, as loudly as they can, that the company's corporate-governance system is totally compromised by the cross directorships with the foundations. "We as class-A [nonvoting] shareholders are impotent to effect any kind of change," complains Jonathan Lewis, an analyst at Franklin Mutual Advisors, which is headed by the feared raider Michael Price. The outfit, which has made runs at Dow Jones & Co., Chase Manhattan Corp. and Sunbeam Corp., wants Grune gone. Says Lewis: "Grune is an ineffective manager, and I think the board of directors should expeditiously seek to replace...
...late newsman Charles Kuralt were also multiple winners in the 40th annual awards show, held in Radio City Music Hall. Besides Barbra Streisand, two other planned performances were canceled due to illness -- George Strait was replaced by Vince Gill and Luciano Pavarotti's surprise fill-in was Aretha Franklin, who sang an aria. (For a complete list of winners, click here...
...delay caused some consternation among the users of the @harvard.edu alias, according to Director of FAS Computer Services Franklin M. Steen...
...While visiting the Olympic facilities here, despite evident anxiety on the part of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt rode the last mile of the Mount Van Hoevenberg Bob Run. Mrs. Roosevelt had ridden on the Mirror Lake Toboggan Slide several times previous to her experiment on the big run on a sled piloted by Henry Homburger [a Winter Games medalist] of the Saranac Lake Red Devils, but expressed a desire to ride on the track which had put so many contestants on the hospital lists...
...addition, she says, agencies have different agendas regarding such issues as how much support to give to research conducted outside the country. Franklin says this can affect the way scientists apply for funding...