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...work every morning at eleven in one of her 16-cylinder Cadillacs. Sometimes she appears in riding-habit, accompanied by her French poodles, who have the run of the office and are dutifully patted by reporters. She lunches, though rarely at this season, at her town house. No. 15 DuPont Circle, formerly Daisy Harriman's, where the Calvin Coolidges stayed after their White House fire. Glowing, brocaded pajamas are her favorite party garb. Her voice is charming, but she knows all the words in any man's vocabulary. Once she got an interview with Al Capone by walking...
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...
Presuming that a man spells his own name correctly on his stationery, it may interest you to know that on the die-stamped letterhead of Mr. P. S. duPont the name appears in all capitals, with the "du" slightly smaller just as TIME used it on the June 28 cover...
...Democratic administration for its agricultural policies, its banking laws, and Treasury deficit. He said, "We had to take the banks out of Wall Street. The banking situation is greatly improved now.' He averred that the country was better off today, quoted rises in the stocks of General Motors and Dupont, which he attributed to the increased spending power of the farmer...
...Separation of hemoglobin, blood's red coloring matter, from the blood serum would require 180 years by gravity sedimentation, but may be accomplished in six hours with DuPont's new Svedberg (1 electro-condenser, 2 atom gun, 3 molecular magnet, 4 centrifuge, 5 chemical reducer...