Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Temperamental center forward Jose Fagarro sparks Tech's fast South American inside trio, that also boasts good wings in Mario Echart and Mike Gruenbaum...
...April 23, 1897, son of the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, grandson of the Rev. Marmaduke Louis Pearson, Methodists. Educated at University of Toronto (B.A. history) and St. John's College, Oxford (M.A.), later honorary fellow. World War I service in Toronto University Hospital unit, where he got nickname "Mike"; lieutenant, Canadian army; flight lieutenant, R.A.F. Married in 1925 to "shy, appealing, collected" (his phrase) Maryon Elspeth Moody of Winnipeg, seminar student when he was assistant professor of history at Toronto; two children: Geoffrey Arthur, 24, Patricia Lilian...
Personality: Informal and friendly; candid in conversation; works hard, long hours, sleeps easily, except on trains or planes which make him airsick; prefers bow ties. Says an associate: "Mike is a very complicated character. The first thing you find out working with him is that he's not the simple barefoot boy people think...
...ever took "Mike" Pearson for a barefoot boy, least of all Russia's Jacob A. Malik, who once said: "I always listen when he speaks...
...Will help Mike Di Salle campaign in Ohio...