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...long after, the house passed from the Hastings family to another controversial figure, the Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages and for a while acting Praeses, Eliphalet Pearson. "I wonder," mused Dr. Holmes from his breakfast table, "if there are any such beings nowadays as the great Eliphalet, with his large features and his conversational basso profundo, seemed to me. His very name had something elephantine about it, and it seemed to me that the house shook from cellar to garret at his footfall...
...lift it up for an Arminian professor," was in command of a lastditch stand against the Unitarians, with the Presidency and the Chair of Divinity, Harvard's two most important single posts, at stake. After what one Fellow termed "as much intrigue ... as was ever practiced in the Vatican," Pearson's forces lost both positions, and Eliphalet resigned to help the newly founded Andover Theological combat Harvard's errors...
...Committee, whose membership includes John Fe. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology and Thoman H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, winners of the 1954 Nobel Prize for their work in growing the polio virus, did not give the vaccine its unqualified support. The report, read to the press last night by Samuel B. Kirkwood, clinical professor of Maternal Health and State Public Health Commissioner, said "the vaccine is very definitely in the developmental stage," and that it might be possible "in rare instances" for live virus in the vaccine to induce the disease...
...Among recent visitors' Bulganin, Khrushchev, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Burma's U Nu. Canada's Lester Pearson, Red China's Madame...
...Harold L. Pearson, 52, lost his $42,500-a-year job as president of the Air Transport Association after six months in office. Pearson's highhanded running of A.T.A. threatened the prestige of the scheduled airlines that make up the organization; e.g., he threatened to pull airline advertising out of a newspaper that editorialized against airplane noise. Pearson's successor: Stuart G. Tipton, 45, A.T.A.'s general counsel...