Word: mason
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Died. Erie Stanley Gardner, 80, creator of Perry Mason and this century's bestselling American author (see BOOKS...
...problem, like many others, is most severe in ghetto areas of central cities. There, because of indifference or ignorance, only 46% of the preschool children have been vaccinated. As Dr. James O. Mason, deputy director of Atlanta's National Communicable Disease Center, explained: "We just have not learned how to communicate with parents in the ghetto...
...demand. In some cases they did not spend enough for expansion because the slow growth of the late 1950s and early 1960s misled them into believing that American consumers were becoming sated. But in many instances, managers simply skimped on spending to dress up their balance sheets. Says Mason Haire, professor of management at M.I.T.: "Too many companies still reward executives for short-term profits. Very often a manager will not spend money on the future, and with luck he will get promoted out of his job before the future arrives. Some other guy has to live with the consequences...
Gardner, who died last week at the age of 80, was the Mrs. Wagner of the genre. Since The Case of the Velvet Claws, the first of his Perry Mason mysteries, was published in 1933, his books have been bestsellers all over the world. Millions have come to know the portly defense counselor from the television serial. As far off as Saudi Arabia, Perry Mason reruns have the population wondering about the advantages of the jury system over King Feisal's rigid religious courts...
Died. William Hopper, 54, actor son of the late Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, who after many years of playing bit parts in films like Footloose Heiress and Torchy Blane, the Adventurous Blonde, and eight years as a car salesman, became a star of sorts as Paul Drake, Perry Mason's detective friend in the famed TV series; of a stroke; in Palm Springs, Calif...