Tontine Group what is a commodity market," she said. "In other countries there is no market leader because manufacturers tended to stay in their local areas." As the company is well known, it is referenced in jokes. For example, an Australian legal newsletter said of an alleged swindler who padded his timesheets "that at one stage pillow makers Tontine were said to be interested in sponsoring him." Duvets in Australia are known by the genericized trademark "Doona"; the brand name is owned by the Tontine Group. The brand name was acquired by Tontine in 1991 when Pacific Dunlop took over the Northern
Lawrence A. Kimpton Lawrence A. Kimpton Lawrence Alpheus Kimpton (1910–1973) was an American philosopher and educator, and a president of the University of Chicago. He earned a B.A. at Stanford and a Ph.D. in philosophy at Cornell University, and he taught at Deep Springs College before joining Chicago as a professor of philosophy in 1943. Robert Maynard Hutchins, then president of the University, invited Kimpton for an interview in 1944. Kimpton recalled Hutchins's questions thus: Kimpton addressed a variety of academic and budget problems before stepping down in 1960. In 1958, Kimpton, then Chancellor of the University of Chicago, suppressed the "beat edition"