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Your June 28 cover and article under "Milestones" raises the question as to the correct spelling of duPont. On the cover you spell it with a small "d" but in the article it is spelled with both a small "d" and capital "D." The daily press, notorious for inaccuracy, almost without exception uses the upper case...
...startled London, no effort was made to get the Queen Mother to furnish such confirmation, but neither new King George nor anyone else denied that his elder brother had given history the correct version of who was responsible for expediting his father's funeral, and shame was upon the Garter King of Arms. That night Sir Gerald Wollaston had been slated to attend a dinner at which his place was just across the table from the Duke of Kent. Since Kent is just about Windsor's most loyal friend in the Royal Family, a scene loomed as unavoidable...
Both these shipboard estimates may be correct, but to millions of citizens on the sidelines, the 1937 struggles between Labor & Capital continued to feel last week like a fierce civic and economic headache, and in the participants on both sides, last week's developments intensified a mood of bitter, uncompromising belligerence...
Sefton and Meadows learned their art from Southern California's Coach Dean Cromwell, who declares that an expert vaulter's greatest single asset is a correct psychological outlook. Both run a 99-ft. stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute...
Allow me, however, to correct one statement in your story which mars its generally fair tone...