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Corporation members themselves don't hesitate to acknowledge that a good deal of tokenism goes into who is selected--the board includes a token professor, a token Boston-area businessman, a lawyer, and a token handyman for whatever project currently occupies the University's attention. And filling those roles are...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

From Harvard, Mockler went to Business School, where he later served as a research associate and doctoral fellow from 1955 to 1957. And in 1957, he joined Boston-based Gillette as a comptroller staff assistant for insurance matters--beginning a long climb which culminated in a heady nine-year whoosh...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

Officials at Gillette and other organizations on whose boards he serves--including Simmons College, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Science--say Mockler is exceptionally bright and deeply moral. He is credited with turning Gillette's balance sheet around during the 1970s by refocusing the company's dwindling...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

Says E. Peter Gillette Jr., vice chairman of Minneapolis' Norwest Corp.: "Perhaps the philosophy is an agrarian holdover-the populists against the pinstripers." Small banks in the West have discovered one innovative way to survive: by renting the name and services of Los Angeles-based First Interstate ($41 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking Goes National | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

The yearlong reign is not much fun, according to many a former winner. You address Rotarians, Lions, Kiwanians, Junior Leaguers, and you appear at Miss America preliminaries. Here a blueberry festival, there a strawberry festival, and the odd hog-calling contest comes into the picture too. And you represent the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Miss is a Hit | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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