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...with a $400,000 balance sheet. As of June 30 of this year, Blackstone had a total of $119.4 billion of assets under management. Light will accompany Richard Jenrette, the founder of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada; and William Parrett, the chief executive of the professional services firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as one of four independent directors on the board. —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...Edgar Parrett, who was named Queen for a Day to the tune of $35,000 (TIME, March 15), is worried because "a lot of the junk I won hasn't been delivered yet." She doesn't know what to do with her trailer: "I haven't used it at. all, not even once. It's parked here in the yard." Her Persian lamb coat had to be sent back ("They did not have my size; I need a much larger one"). She has stored her stove and refrigerator, but likes to ride around the Navajo reservation...
Last week, burbling Cinemactress Billie Burke was called into the studio to pick a name out of a fishbowl. The name happened to belong to Mrs. Edgar Parrett, 56, of Shiprock, N. Mex. That was how Mrs. Parrett became "Queen for a Day" and the winner of a staggering $35,000 assortment of prizes, the biggest, of course, in radio history-at least for a few weeks...
...Parrett, who lives on a Navajo reservation, answered no questions, wrote no essay, did not even hear the broadcast that made her rich. She qualified because she is a mother-in-law, and she won (over 3,000,000 others nominated by listeners) because her name happened to be drawn...
...Parrett, calm about the whole thing, said: "I was hoping...