Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There has to be a first time for everything," said Columnist Drew Pearson ruefully one day last week, "and this is the first time I've ever lost a libel suit." That day a jury in federal district court had brought in a verdict in favor of onetime U.S. Assistant Attorney General Norman M. Littell, for $50,000 compensatory damages, plus $1 for punitive damages - the biggest libel verdict ever returned in Washington...
...good many months, it seemed as if the university might remain part of the ruins. But Pearson decided to stay anyway. He rose to be President Bowman Ashe's second in command, was picked as his successor after Ashe died last December. Last week, at Pearson's inauguration, visiting scholars and notables could see what a phenomenal phoenix the university had become: Pearson was officially taking over one of the fastest-growing campuses in the South...
...debt. Its great administration building remained only a skeleton; its one usable building was an abandoned, half-finished hotel, which was fixed up with beaverboard partitions to accommodate classes. President Ashe himself had to borrow on his own insurance policies to help pay professors' salaries, and Zoologist Pearson had to build his own laboratory tables. The whole campus seemed so shaky, in fact, that it became known throughout the U.S. as "Cardboard College...
...Greater Miami, the university means even more. It has the only legitimate theater in town, has the only symphony orchestra, owns the only art museum. Under new President Pearson, it is obviously not planning to stand still. Among its present projects: the building of a new $2,000,000 medical school, a Beaux Arts pavilion, a special school of tropical agruculture...
Surgeons have been removing the ovaries of women with advanced cancer of the breast on the theory that the ovarian hormones (estrogens) favor the growth of the cancer. But Dr. Olof H. Pearson of Manhattan's Memorial Center found that this surgery seemed to slow the spread of such cancers in only 30% to 50% of the cases. With two other doctors, he conducted a close study of cases to learn...