Columbia Threadneedle’s golden turn

Jorgensen quickly points to her coach Jamie Turner and her husband Patrick Lemieux as major factors behind her success in Rio. (Lemieux gave up his career as a pro cyclist to help Jorgensen chase her Olympic dream.)

But she also credits her sponsors — beyond Columbia, others include Red Bull, Asics, and Oakley — for making it all possible.

“It allows me to live the lifestyle I live,” Jorgensen said of her sponsorships. “It allows me to pick the best coach in the world, and to be abroad [for much of the year].”

Leslie Walstrom, head of US marketing at Columbia, rearranged her Saturday to watch the race. She traded e-mails with other execs, including chief executive Ted Truscott, throughout the event, reacting to Jorgensen’s moves.

Jorgensen’s schedule for the fall is still coming together. Walstrom says she hopes the gold medal winner can squeeze in some time to visit an industry conference or two, to speak with Columbia clients, and meet with employees.

That said, Jorgensen still has plenty of racing on the horizon, including the ITU World Triathlon Championships in Cozumel next month and the TCS New York City Marathon in November. Long-term, Jorgensen envisions another longtime dream: being a mom. And she doesn’t seem to completely rule out a return to accounting someday. But she offers this understatement when explaining that she’s far removed from that world now: “I don’t think I’m done with sports yet.” — JON CHESTO

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Wednesday put out a press release all but guaranteed to set the hearts of literary urbanists aflutter citywide.

It was a reading list, designed to spark ideas for Imagine Boston 2030, the citywide planning project Walsh launched last year. “Members of the mayor’s team” — if not necessarily Walsh himself — came up with 12 titles, plus an eight-book list for children. And they’re taking online votes for a few more.

Recommendations include J. Anthony Lukas’ busing-era classic “Common Ground” and Southie memoir “All Souls” by Michael Patrick MacDonald, a study of the South End’s Villa Victoria, by University of Chicago scholar Mario Luis Small, and “The Given Day”, because what’s a Boston book list without Dennis Lehane?

There’s some global fare, too, like “The Price of Inequality”, by Joseph Stiglitz, and urban sociology in the form of “Evicted”, by Harvard’s Matthew Desmond, which is so well-regarded in City Hall that Desmond has been brought in to talk with staff at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Department of Neighborhood Development.

All these books will be stocked up at Boston Public Library branches, and Walsh, in a statement, urged Bostonians to drop by and pick up a few, to inform their thinking about what this city might look like in 15 years, and beyond.

“This reading list is another tool we’re using to drive engagement and ask people to think about Boston’s first citywide planning undertaking in 50 years,” he said.

Still, “Make Way for Ducklings” aside, there’s some heavy reading here. Indeed, it might take until 2030 to get through the whole list, especially “The Power Broker”, Robert Caro’s epic biography of Robert Moses, the behind-the-scenes master who built much of modern New York City. It clocks in at 1,166 pages in paperback, with 80 more of notes.

By the time you’re done, you might be ready to work at the BRA yourself.
— TIM LOGAN

A half-dozen murals that once hung in MIT’s Sloan business school might be making their way to the Ohio hometown of famed children’s author Robert McCloskey, who helped paint the towering artworks.

The paintings were installed in the late 1930s when the Sloan building was still the headquarters of the Lever Brothers Co., but came down in 2013 when the building underwent major renovations.

They’ve been in storage since, despite efforts to find a new home. But a Globe story in July, detailing the paintings’ pivotal role in the creation of McCloskey’s masterwork, Make Way for Ducklings, kick-started efforts by city officials in Hamilton, Ohio, to get ahold of them.

McCloskey was largely unknown and living in New York when he took an assistant’s job on the mural project. The idea for “Ducklings” took root while McCloskey was here, and he returned to New York with a draft of the book.

Earlier this month, the Hamilton City Council formally authorized efforts to transfer the orphaned murals — which depict scenes of Depression-era Boston — to the city, home to a McCloskey museum.

City officials are now working out the details with MIT, and trying to raise $100,000 from private sources to pay for the project. “That should be enough money to get the murals back to Hamilton and begin the restoration process,” said city manager Joshua Smith.
— CURT WOODWARD

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