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...Canada in the previous year. For each volume, one of the nation's most distinguished novelists is chosen to be the guest editor (recent past editors include Richard Ford, Louise Erdrich, and Jane Smiley). The editor is blindly presented with 120 stories, chosen by the series editor, Katrina Kenison. Blind presentation means that the authors names are concealed up until publication of the selection. This year's guest editor John Edgar Wideman (two time winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award 1984 and 1990) has selected an eclectic array of pieces written by both big name authors such as Alice Adams...
Before taking that plunge, Myers and Kenison rounded up three friends to help: Adman William L. Pereira Jr., 29, son of the famed architect-planner; Lud Renick, 37, a realty and restaurant investor; and Lawyer Mark T. Gates, 30. "None of us knew what we were getting into," recalls Pereira. "At first, it didn't look too difficult. If we'd known, we probably would not have started." Sensibly, their first move was to recruit two veteran aviation consultants: Thomas Wolfe, 65, a onetime vice president of both Western and Pan American, who is now Air California...
...home of Disneyland and the American League's California Angels, it attracts thousands of out-of-town visitors. On his own, Myers began assembling data in the hope of selling a study to an airline. In December 1965, he mentioned his findings to another market researcher, Alan H. Kenison, then 27. Asked Kenison: "Why don't you start your own airline...
...Anxious to sue under New Hampshire law, Mrs. Clark's lawyer requested a pretrial look at the "place of injury" doctrine. As a result, New Hampshire's approach to choice of law has been drastically revised. From now on, said State Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank R. Kenison, New Hampshire will defer to whichever state offers "the sounder rule...
...Clark's case, said Kenison, "our rule is preferable to that of Vermont. The automobile guest statutes were enacted in about half the states, in the 1920s and early 1930s, as a result of vigorous pressures by skillful proponents," meaning insurance companies...