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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kelso: the $109,750 John B. Campbell Handicap, at Maryland's Bowie Race Course, thus becoming the third-biggest money winner in U.S. racing history (behind Round Table and Nashua). Carrying 131 lbs., Mrs. Richard C. du Font's great gelding rushed from behind to nip Crimson Satan by three-quarters of a length. The victory, Kelso's second in a $100,000-added race within a week, was worth $71,337-pushing his total winnings...
...Academie accepts no more than 30 girls a year. Members of the current crop include Henry Ford's daughter Anne (whose sister Charlotte graduated with the premiere class in 1961), Melinda Fuller, granddaughter of onetime Massachusetts Governor Alvan Fuller, and Genevieve du Pont of the Delaware dynasty. Tuition for the eight-month course is $2,800, covers the girls' social outings to theaters, balls, concerts and weekend house parties (escorted vacation cruises to Greece or Egypt are optional). Students do not live in dormitories, but (at an additional cost of close to $2.000) are placed with families...
...shorter life at the hands of the fickle consumer. There are plenty of companies to woo him; so many firms now have fast-moving research labs and trigger-ready marketing techniques that few new products are far ahead of competing copies or improvements. "Lead time is gone," laments Du Pont Chairman Crawford Greenewalt. "There's no company so outstanding technically today that it can expect a long lead in a new discovery...
Welles' European backers delayed the release of the film for seven years and sued him for "unprofessional conduct" during the filming. At the same time (1955) the critical Cahiers du Cinema proclaimed it one of the best movies ever made. Up to the finale, I would be inclined to agree with the Cahiers critics, in spite of the weakness in acting and flashback technique. But the whimper ending, which could so easily have been worked into a bang, drops it from the sublime to the extraordinary...
...earlier president once declared, "the greatest asset of this company is its mystery." Bank Note has always been extraordinarily concerned with security, keeps its premises closely guarded. With half of its business now in printing securities for such corporate giants as A.T.& T., General Motors. Du Pont and General Electric, it often knows months in advance that a company is planning a stock split or a new bond issue-information Wall Street speculators would love to have. And to foil counterfeiters, it uses special paper embedded with colored disks, mixes its own inks, and even makes its own special presses...