Word: pearsons
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Kansas (2). Republican Incumbents Frank Carlson and James B. Pearson are running far enough ahead of the Democratic hopefuls...
Exeter's diverse writers include Booth Tarkington, Robert Benchley, Drew Pearson. Andover's are Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lardner, Quentin Reynolds, John Home Burns, James Ramsay Ullman and the much-read Dr. Benjamin Spock. Most famous nongrad is Andover's Humphrey Bogart, who got the boot for "incontrollably high spirits" (he dunked a teacher in Rabbit Pond) and spent his life boasting about...
Principal Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson learned them just that when he opened the school with 13 boys shortly before George Washington marched out of Valley Forge. A hefty Harvardman, Tyrant Pearson ruled by rod and God. His awed charges, including Josiah Quincy, 6, a future Harvard president, paid $10 a year and toiled from dawn to dusk. On the school seal, Paul Revere engraved Finis Origine Pendet, a Calvinistic commercial meaning: "One's end depends on one's origin." More hopefully, Phillips took it to mean: "Well begun is half done." George Washington thought so well of the school...
...Pearson helped launch Andover Theological Seminary, which soon turned town and gown into what Student Oliver Wendell Holmes (1825) called "the very dove's nest of Puritan faith." Great preachers flocked there; on Andover Hill was written My Country 'Tis of Thee. Shunning Unitarian Harvard, the school became such a solid Yale "feeder" that in the 1920s Andover men comprised 10% of many a Yale class...
...past four months, U.S. business has known no more indefatigable head-hunter than David Karr, 44, onetime legman for Drew Pearson and then a public-relations man before he maneuvered himself into the corporate big time as guiding spirit of New York's Fairbanks Whitney Corp. Last week, after interviewing more than 40 senior executives from every corner of the nation, Karr ended his talent quest. In as Fairbanks Whitney's new president and chief executive officer (at $115,000 a year) goes crew-cut George A. Strichman, 46, once director of manufacturing services for Raytheon Corp...