Tag: pierre zarokian
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Meet Astronaut Sally Ride
By Pierre Zarokian Sally Ride was a Los Angeles native who was born in 1951. She would later go on to study at Stanford University, where she held a double major on both English and physics. She graduated in 1973 with a bachelor’s degree in both subjects. In 1975, she earned a master’s degree and…
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The Legacy of Clarence W. Barron
By Pierre Zarokian. One of the most important people in the history of the Wall Street Journal was a young journalist named Clarence Barron, who purchased controlling stock in the Journal in 1902. Circulation at the time was a mere 7,000 but Barron had a background in newspaper reporting and hoped to turn those efforts…