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...RENAISSANCE (776 pp.)-Will Durant-Simon & Schuster...
...notion of writing a history of civilization first occurred to Will Durant in Damascus in 1912. He had come down with dysentery and had dredged out of his well-stocked memory the recollection that famed Historian Henry Thomas Buckle (1821-62) had died of the same disease* in the same city. What Buckle had never lived to do, 27-year-old Will Durant decided to do himself some...
Married. Jose Ferrer, 41, actor-producer-director of stage and screen (Cyrano de Bergerac, Moulin Rouge, The Shrike); and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 25 (Come On-a My House); he for the third time, she for the first; in Durant, Okla., six days after Ferrer's previous wife, Broadway Actress Phyllis Hill* 32 (The Fifth Season), divorced him in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...Pierre du Pont declared: "There was no discussion whatever [of this]. It was an unimportant statement ..." The only reason, said he, that Du Pont had bought into G.M. was to "get a good investment. . ." It was forced to invest millions more to buy out G.M. Founder William C. Durant, after his enormous losses in the stock market slump of 1920 threatened to ruin him and G.M. Pierre became president of G.M., but only, said he, "until a better-posted man could be found...
Under Pierre and Alfred P. Sloan, Durant's former assistant, G.M. was put back on its feet, its assets boosted from $605 million to $1.8 billion. But Pierre had not been able to get the exclusive use of Du Font's revolutionary new auto paint, Duco, for G.M. Irénée, then president of Du Pont, insisted on selling it to all comers. At no time, then or since, have Du Pont sales to G.M. exceeded 4.1% of its total annual sales...