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...Pont's own employees have such boundless faith in the company's abilities that when Du Pont polled them on products they would most like to see developed, they suggested everything from a tooth preservative and a salve that grows hair, to wings enabling man to fly on his own power. Du Pont's President Greene-walt thinks their imagination may have ranged a little far, but he points out that there are 90-odd chemical elements and that only a tiny fraction of their possible combinations have been put to commercial use. Says he: "The greatest...
...period through which we are going is between two excesses: open and implacable lack of religion or boundless and blind religiosity. The church, persecuted by one, compromised by the other, only repeats her motherly warning; but her words are unheard among the denials from one and the exaltations of the other...
Coming to "G.B.S.: 1856-1950" [TIME, Nov. 13], my eyes widened . . . [with] boundless admiration for a matchless evaluation of G.B.S.'s controversial personality and literary importance...
...oldtime baseball fans have no trouble remembering a buoyant, carousing young man of 24 who blew into the majors from the Nebraska plains in 1911 and promptly won 28 games with the Philadelphia Phillies, a freshman record that has never been approached. Grover Cleveland Alexander, with fireball, fast curve, boundless self-confidence, and a big wad of chewing tobacco tucked in the corner of his grinning mouth, hit the National League like a meteor, and managed to keep his big-league glow for 20 years...
Success, his boundless faith in himself, and his instinct for defending Li'l Abner to the death, involved him in another conflict-a remarkable feud with his former employer Ham Fisher. Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, (to put it mildly) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated. Fisher, a man of Roman selfesteem, considered Capp an ingrate and a whippersnapper, and watched his rise to fame with unfeigned horror...