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...Pont tower is probably the first private mausoleum in history with a six-passenger elevator, beacon lights and a carillon. Four concrete eagles stare from the tower's four corners, the Du Pont arms in concrete ornament the severe Renaissance façade. RECTITUDINE STO ("By rectitude I stand") is the motto carved above...
...broadcasting entertainment business. It is a television technology training school. Behind its garish façade it has distinguished advisers -Inventors Dr. Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, Philo Taylor Farnsworth. M. I. T. treasurer is Socialite Sam Batchelder, onetime Harvard football and hockey star. The Institute built its own television equipment, uses a 9 in. by 12 in.-screen English receiver manufactured by Baird Television Ltd. Originally intended for student demonstrations the equipment drew so many curious visitors to the school's converted automobile showroom that M. I. T. President Porter Henderson Evans last week arranged regularly scheduled evening performances, obtained...
George Orson Welles (the George is for George Ade, a family friend) is the son of an inventor and a concert pianist. His father, Richard Head Welles, invented among other things: 1) a mechanical dishwasher which broke all the dishes, 2) a collapsible picnic set which the Government bought in large quantities for doughboys and which, according to Son Orson, "contributed greatly to the horrors...
Said oldtime Indiana Humorist George Ade on his 72nd birthday: ''I don't feel a day over...
...first crack in C. I. O.'s façade appeared when the Garment Workers' official organ, Justice, laid the blame for the collapse of the A. F. of L.C. I. O. peace negotiations on John L. Lewis (TIME, Jan. 10). But the Dubinsky speech last week was the first time that one member of the C. I. O. high command has attacked another in open forum. Briefly and bluntly Mr. Dubinsky declared that the peace negotiators had arrived at a basis for settlement but that the formula was personally vetoed by John L. Lewis...