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...executives of a single private corporation in this country [i.e., the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which pays its top officers an average of $213,715 each] are paid more than the aggregate salary now paid to all the 250 or so federal officers to whom this bill applies...
Replied Sam Horvitz: "The whole thing boils down to whether a newspaper has the right to accept or reject advertising . . . We're in good company-the Du Ponts, the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, and now the Lorain Journal...
McNear was killed instantly when he lost his balance climbing Dent du Geant --"The Giant's Tooth"--on August 18, six miles, from the famous French peak. His body, and the body of a companion he knocked over in his fall, were recovered and cremated in Italy later in the month...
...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...
Chief witnesses of the Bergman suffering are Joseph Gotten, her surly husband, and Michael Wilding, a foppish gallant who plays her father confessor. The evil housekeeper, a stock character made popular by Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, is well played by Margaret Leighton...