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DEATH REVEALED. Philip D. Estridge, 47, easygoing, exuberant IBM vice president and "intrapreneur" who between 1980 and 1984 moved with record speed and scant respect for sacrosanct tradition to build the company's personal computer division into a 10,000-employee, $5 billion-a-year concern with one hit product, the revolutionary PC, and one miss, the hapless PCjr, whose production was stopped last April for lack of sales; in the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 near Dallas...
Keillor was not a natural performer as a boy, says his older brother Philip, 48, an engineer whose field is shoreline erosion and flooding. At the University of Minnesota, Gary edited the literary magazine and wrote a noisy, satirical column called "Broadsides," in which he slashed at student radicals, the college president and any other targets that seemed pompous or pretentious. But the storytelling gifts did not immediately appear. In 1966, after he finished college, Keillor "felt a slight urge to head out" from the Midwest, and on a job-hunting swing through the East he applied at half...
Recent laws requiring harsher health warnings on cigarette packages, a popular preoccupation with physical fitness and restrictions on smoking in many restaurants and offices do not make business easy for industry executives. It comes as no surprise, then, that tobacco makers are aggressively diversifying. Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, which together account for 67% of total industry sales, have recently made major nontobacco takeovers. In June Reynolds agreed to buy Nabisco Brands, which makes scores of food products, including Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers. Three months later, Philip Morris announced that it would acquire General Foods, one of the largest...
...meeting, Summers also named this year’s new Harvard College Professors. The new recipients of the title—the most distinguished a professor can attain at the College—are Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile, and Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer...
...don’t have any hard information on what [general education at Harvard] is going to be like.” says Higginson Professor of History Philip A. Kuhn ’54, who also chairs the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department...