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...elegant agora of the new suburbia, the font of everything from Kix to Cheer, and the source of no small amount of corn - including the gag about the housewife whose shopping cart does $40 an hour. The American housewife thinks nothing of spending an average $1,200 a year in the super market. Altogether, U.S. food stores do a $60 billion-a-year business, as much as the steel and auto industries wrapped together...
...million to develop Teflon and similar substances, and so many uses have been found for Teflon that it has taken its place as one of the "miracle" products. American consumers were introduced to it only two years ago, when European companies that had mastered the technique of bonding Du Font's plastic to other materials began exporting Teflon-coated frying pans to the U.S. To the astonishment of U.S. housewives, eggs, meat, even cheese and pancakes, required no fat for frying and could quickly be removed from the pan without sticking...
...guest list read like an East Coast Republicans' Who's Who. Among those attending: former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board Chairman William Paley; Du Font's Pierre S. du Pont III; General Electric's Ralph Cordiner; former Defense Secretary Tom Gates, an Ike intimate; New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer; Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, and party officials from Delaware and New Jersey. Invited but sending regrets were George M. Humphrey, Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary, and former G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn...
...Times. Disappointed by the Valley, Cowles sold out for about $2,000,000 to Lammot Copeland Jr., son of Du Font's president. The paper has resumed its old name and much of its old flavor. Russell Quisenberry is back, as board chairman. The new publisher is a self-styled "Constitutionalist" named Ben Reddick, a public relations man who ran the triweekly Newport Beach News-Press so haphazardly that the Audit Bureau of Circulation was moved to comment in 1961: "The condition of the circulation records made an ac curate audit for the previous 24 months impossible...
...catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond Wilmington, can use Allyn's brokerage network to expand even further its fast growing business. The move will strengthen du Font's position as the nation's second biggest broker but, with $300 million in assets, du Pont will still be only one-third as big as Merrill Lynch...