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...into $6,500,000. Just before Wilson testified, the court heard from Du Pont President Crawford Greenewalt, son-in-law of aged Irénée du Pont. He, too, had never heard the Du Fonts mention any Du Pont-G.M.-Rubber agreement, but he did add a footnote on his personal history. In 1926, on his marriage to Irénée's daughter Margaretta, Irénée had presented Greenewalt with 1,000 shares of stock in Christiana Securities Co., the holding company that controls Du Pont. The stock was then worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trial of the Titans | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Twice Told Tale. The U.S. had promised that the case would be a "never-before-revealed biography of the Du Fonts." Actually, as told by Defendants Pierre and Irénée and Du Pont officials, it was pretty much a retelling of familiar history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trial of the Titans | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...tired. I don't remember anything. Leave me alone." Thus veteran French Communist Andre Marty, 65, answered party charges of undermining Communist unity in France (TIME, Sept. 29). To Marty, professional party roughneck who fought in the 1919 Black Sea mutiny, the Spanish Civil War and ir many a skullbreaking French Communist riot, the party gave one month's time for "auto-criticism." Last week, dissatisfied with his "obstinate refusal . . . to confess ... his serious political deviations," the French Communist Party fired him from its ten-man Politburo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Turned Out | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

Probable starting lineups: Harvard--Fisher, g; Laimbeer, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Hadik, rhb; Bigelow, chb; Little, lhb; Lingelbach, or; Holmes, ir; Goles, cf; Lloyd H; Truslow, ol; Exeter--Tyson, g; King, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Ballard, rhb; Hodnett, chb; Lamont, rhb; McIntosh, or; Gomez, ir; Martin, cf; Parker, il; Burlingame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Soccer Team To Play Exeter Today | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

Last but far, far from least is Williams' opponent. Alexis Irénée du Pont Bayard, 34, a Democrat of aristocratic lineage, is a veteran with a fine combat record, a good speaker, handsome, suave, a Princeton graduate and now Delaware's hard-working lieutenant governor. Alexis Bayard's father, Thomas Bayard, was a U.S. Senator. So were his grandfather, Thomas Bayard Sr., his great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Jr., his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard, his great-great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Sr., and his great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Bassett (who was also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man Who Pulled a Thread | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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