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...Harvard Business School has named Pearson Hunt the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking...
...they take chances on a freight car full of oranges, or a new convertible stuffed with $27,000 in cash. This sort of thing may not be real gambling, but it does contribute to a gambling atmosphere. Says one interested witness, the Nevada Gaming Control Board's Wayne Pearson: "Statistically, gambling is the normal thing. It's the non-gambler who is abnormal in American society...
Trend to the Vernacular. Under the Economist's articles of incorporation, no one shareholder is allowed to own more than 50% of the total stock. Currently, 50% is held by S. Pearson industries Ltd., a diversified holding company (pumps, pottery, publishing), that also owns the London Financial Times. For a British publication, the Economist is heavily staffed: a total of 40 writers and editors in London. In the rest of the world, it is very lightly staffed. It has one man in Washington, one in Paris, one in Bonn, and one in Vienna who covers all of Eastern Europe...
...British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
...Character Assassins." Dodd portrayed himself as the aggrieved party rather than the offender. The Senator depicted four former staff members, who started his ordeal by stealing his private records and passing them to Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson, as victims of a "pathological desire for vengeance." He branded the columnists as "the most unscrupulous character assassins ever spawned by the American press." No doubt this argument had its effect, for hardly any Senator would relish having his employees hand private documents from his files to a pair of muckrakers...