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...William V. Hyland, Ruth E. Hyland; W. Eliott Norton, Katherine Watters, Edmond Burke, Josephine Sullivan; George H. McKenna, Rosemarie Travnor; Joseph F. Sullivan, Laura McQueeney; Richard Learson, Katherine Learson...
...scholarship was created as a tribute to T. Vincent Learson '35, a Boston Latin alumnus. Although now retired, Learson worked at IBM for 38 years, serving as its president from 1966 to 1971 and then as chief executive officer and chairperson of the board until 1973, said IBM spokesperson Theo Chisholm...
That drastic proposal, which would cause one of the biggest business divestitures in U.S. history, seemed to leave nearly everyone magnificently unmoved. A total breakup of the company, scoffed IBM Chairman T. Vincent Learson, "will never happen." IBM's lawyers accused the Justice Department of attempting to complicate and stall the case further by expanding its complaint beyond the company's domestic operations to include its fast-expanding international business as well. Even investors, after an initially skittish reaction that sent the company's stock tumbling 14 points, rallied behind Wall Street's perennial darling...
Gary, the chairman-designate, joined the company in 1948 as a salesman in Los Angeles after he was graduated from u.C.L.A. He became a vice president in 1966 and succeeded Learson as president last year. So far, no one has been named to replace Cary in the presidency. Likely contenders include two men from IBM World Trade Corp., the overseas arm that accounted for half of the parent firm's profits last year. They are Gilbert E. Jones, the Trade Corp.'s chief executive, who will move up into the Corporate Office on Jan. 1, and Jacques...
...Learson will remain on IBM's board, but he says that he will take advantage of his retirement to "sharpen up my golf, do some more sailing, travel, and spend more time with my family. I've had 37 years of fun working with IBM. My wife and I now want to have some fun loafing." Spectacled and softspoken, Cary offers a noticeable contrast to his imposing and forceful predecessor. But Cary is not expected to introduce any alterations to IBM management style. Says a former IBM financial executive: "At IBM, the players may come...