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Involved in the ruling was a Northeast Airlines Convair that left New York's La Guardia Airport on Aug. 15, 1958, crashed while approaching Nantucket Island, Mass., and killed 25. One New York passenger's widow, Mrs. John S. Pearson, sued Northeast in a New York court, won $160,000. When the airline appealed, a three-judge federal panel upheld its claim that since the crash occurred in Massachusetts (where claims at the time were limited to $15,000), the case should have been tried there. But the full court, in a rehearing, reversed the decision. Said...
...felt rather badly about yelling 'Go to hell, Ole Miss' until I heard that they were yelling. 'Five, four, three, two, Let's send Meredith to LSU,'" commented Nancy Pearson...
...citizens agree. But Canadian External Affairs Secretary Howard Green, a staunch advocate of disarmament at the U.N., has long argued against the idea on the theory that the fewer countries with nuclear bases the better. And Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, ever mindful that opposition Liberal Leader Lester B. Pearson once won a Nobel Peace Prize, backs him up. No nukes for Canada...
Kansas Republicans swept both Senatorial contests, with Frank Carlson defeating R.L. Smith and James Pearson downing Paul Aylward. The GOP also dominated the gubernatorial race as John Anderson won easily over Dale Saffels...
...Supreme Vice. Wilde was a talker, one of the best who ever lived, and perhaps because he needed the stimulus of conversation, his letters were not so witty as his talk. Rather, the letters confirm Pearson's estimate of Wilde as a man utterly without meanness of spirit, the kindest and most gracious of egomaniacs. Constantly he is seen doing a kindness, praising another author, gracefully laughing off an insult. His own wit, unlike that of his artist friend Whistler, almost never dealt in insults (except when he was insulting Whistler; Wilde observed in one letter that Whistler...